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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Anger.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Racial pressures.

2. What has the image of the bound and suppressed darkness become objectified as?
(a) Black persona.
(b) Africanist persona.
(c) White persona.
(d) Benevolent person.

3. In the Henry Morgan book, where does a shooting occur?
(a) In a park.
(b) Outside a cafe.
(c) In a school.
(d) Outside a hospital.

4. In the Henry Morgan book, who is portrayed as being the most violent?
(a) Blacks.
(b) Henry's father.
(c) Whites.
(d) Henry Morgan.

5. In the novel, what does Catherine want to be?
(a) Tan.
(b) Literate.
(c) Pale.
(d) Blonde.

6. Where does William Dunbar appear after claiming land?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) New York City.
(d) Miami.

7. The presence of blacks is inherent and inextricable from the definition of which word?
(a) Americanness.
(b) Africanist.
(c) Black.
(d) Literature.

8. Why does Morrison state that slavery enriches the country's possibilities?
(a) Polarity of skin color.
(b) Polarity of talent.
(c) Polarity of personality.
(d) Polarity of virtue.

9. Which flight is described by Morrison as an escape?
(a) Happiness to unruliness.
(b) Old World to New World.
(c) War to peace.
(d) Anger to acceptance.

10. Which work features Harry Morgan?
(a) To Feel the World Below.
(b) To Have Faith in the Faithless.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) To Feel Comfortable.

11. According to Morrison, whose work is free of agenda and sensitivity?
(a) Faulkner.
(b) James.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Poe.

12. How does Morrison describe early America as distinguishing itself?
(a) Pushing toward freedom from racial prejudice.
(b) Pushing toward a future of freedom.
(c) Pushing toward better quality literature.
(d) Pushing toward freedom from Africanism.

13. Morrison's project is an effort to avert the critical gaze from the racial object to the racial ______?
(a) Victim.
(b) Subject.
(c) Accuser.
(d) Violator.

14. What is Dunbar able to justify?
(a) Starving his slaves.
(b) Leaving Europe.
(c) Giving his slaves lashes.
(d) Killing a man.

15. What is the white image related to the erasure of, according to Morrison?
(a) Africanism in literature.
(b) Black figure.
(c) Literary whiteness.
(d) Non-whiteness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which novel does Morrison discuss a character named Catherine?

2. Who does Morrison consider to be the most important early American writer in regard to the concept of Africanism in literature?

3. What type of writer is Poe?

4. Which of the following words best describes Henry Morgan?

5. Who is the author of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?

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