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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Morrison, what is Hemingway's work distant from?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Benevolence.
(c) African-Americans.
(d) Blue collar workers.

2. In the book about Faulkner, what "show their flaws best in written form"?
(a) Benevolence.
(b) Pressure.
(c) Racial divisions.
(d) Racial tension.

3. Morrison says that Hemingway's work is more artless and unselfconscious than which writer?
(a) Cath.
(b) Poe.
(c) James.
(d) Faulkner.

4. In American literature, what does Morrison believe artists transfer internal conflicts to?
(a) Blank darkness.
(b) Literary blackness.
(c) Literary strengths.
(d) Pride.

5. In Hemingway's work, a person from which country kills Harry?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Mexico.

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

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

8. What group of America's population offers itself up as a surrogate, in Morrison's point of view?
(a) Whites.
(b) Writers.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Slaves.

9. In Hemingway's works, what do black nurse-men often articulate?
(a) Narrator's quality.
(b) Narrator's love affairs.
(c) Narrator's exact emotions.
(d) Narrator's doom.

10. What does the American group that offers itself up as a surrogate represent a meditation on?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Pressure.
(c) Human freedom.
(d) Racial tension.

11. In one of Hemingway's works, which character provides a juxtaposition to Catherine?
(a) Marita.
(b) Maxine.
(c) Melissa.
(d) Melanie.

12. In Hemingway's work, what are black men most similar to?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Fathers.
(c) Children.
(d) Nurses.

13. Who is the author of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?
(a) Henry James.
(b) George Bernard Shaw.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Willa Cather.

14. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?
(a) Sexuality and racism.
(b) Complex emotions.
(c) Class and race.
(d) Helplessness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison describe as the third feature of a non-American?

2. What type of settlers does Voyagers of the West investigate?

3. What position does Morrison take completely?

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

5. What is the third duty of a persona?

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