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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what role does Morrison describe herself as assuming nothing happens?
(a) Black woman.
(b) Reader.
(c) Writer.
(d) European.

2. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?
(a) Literary whiteness and blackness.
(b) Literary feminism.
(c) Racial profiling in literature.
(d) Exemplary black and white characters.

3. Morrison claims that she does not want to replace what with Afrocentric domination?
(a) Eurocentric.
(b) Literature.
(c) White.
(d) American.

4. Who does the main female character in Sapphira and the Slave Girl demand power over?
(a) Her slaves.
(b) Children.
(c) Society.
(d) Men.

5. Which word best describes Sapphira?
(a) Benevolent.
(b) Intelligent.
(c) Wicked.
(d) Desperate.

6. Why does Morrison claim to struggle with language that evokes hidden signals?
(a) She is a good writer.
(b) She is a black writer.
(c) She is a bad writer.
(d) She is a female writer.

7. Which of the following words refers to denotative and connotative blackness that the African people have come to signify?
(a) Africanism.
(b) African-American.
(c) Americanism.
(d) Black literature.

8. What does Cardinal's first therapy realization concern?
(a) Prepubescent sensuality.
(b) Sexuality of different races.
(c) Dichotomy thrust upon people of color.
(d) Music started her fall to madness.

9. Where were the lectures that Playing in the Dark is based on given?
(a) Harvard.
(b) University of Washington.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Princeton.

10. How many years back did the presence of African-Americans in the US begin?
(a) 600.
(b) 400.
(c) 300.
(d) 500.

11. What does Morrison propose to investigate?
(a) Racial hierarchy.
(b) Racial bias.
(c) Racial superiority.
(d) Racial exclusivity.

12. Who was criticized by a scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

13. In what role does Morrison see the subject of a dream?
(a) Reader.
(b) Artist.
(c) Black woman.
(d) Writer.

14. In the attack on Algeria, what does Cardinal see?
(a) White slaughter of an Indian mother.
(b) White slaughter of a black mother.
(c) White slaughter of a white mother.
(d) Vengeful slaughter of an innocent.

15. Where does Morrison's vulnerability lie?
(a) She is a woman.
(b) Caring for racial superiority.
(c) Romanticizing blackness.
(d) She is biased.

Short Answer Questions

1. What accusations does Morrison accept the risk of when discussing studies of racism?

2. What does The Words to Say It document about the author?

3. What does Morrison believe we need to learn about to discover the nature and cause of literary whiteness?

4. In Morrison's point of view, what does the fabrication of an Africanist presence a reflexive mediation on?

5. What does Morrison say produces work?

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