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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Morrison describe as being the first feature of a non-American?
(a) Existence.
(b) Slave status.
(c) Personality.
(d) Hair color.

3. 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.

4. Who wrote a book about Faulkner?
(a) Snead.
(b) Poe.
(c) Williams.
(d) Charleston.

5. What does a character in Hemingway's work refer to having sex with black women as?
(a) Mother hens.
(b) House cats.
(c) Angry lions.
(d) Nurse sharks.

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

7. How does the character discussing sex in Hemingway's novel think of black women?
(a) Equal to white women.
(b) Less than human.
(c) More like men.
(d) Better than white women.

8. In what year does William Dunbar write about suppression?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1768.
(c) 1755.
(d) 1776.

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

10. What is the second duty of a persona?
(a) Envy.
(b) Creation.
(c) Reification.
(d) Belief.

11. What are the two characters who discuss sex in Hemingway's work?
(a) Morgan and Henrietta.
(b) Hanna and Marshall.
(c) Harry and Marie.
(d) Harold and Manny.

12. Which of the following words best describes Henry Morgan?
(a) Wicked.
(b) Moral.
(c) Angry.
(d) Insane.

13. What do some suggest is a way to evade history?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Romance.
(c) Religion.
(d) Race.

14. In Hemingway's work, who represents an outlaw of sexuality?
(a) Black women.
(b) White women.
(c) White men.
(d) Black men.

15. What type of possibilities does Morrison think slavery enriches in America?
(a) Historical.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Creative.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Hemingway's work, what do black nurse-men often alter?

2. Africanism acquiring a metaphysical necessity is not the same as losing its _______?

3. In Hemingway's works, what do black nurse-men often articulate?

4. In the novel, what does Catherine want to be?

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

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