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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "the Thing"?
(a) Louis Armstrong concert.
(b) Morrison's distaste for Africanist literature.
(c) Classic literature.
(d) Cardinal's illness.

2. Where did Cardinal grow up?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Algeria.
(c) United States.
(d) Argentina.

3. What does Morrison see that the subject of the dream is?
(a) The dream itself.
(b) The symbolism of the dream.
(c) The dreamer.
(d) The action in the dream.

4. What book discusses certain kinds of readings that seem inextricable from certain experiences of writing and knowledge?
(a) Playing in the Dark.
(b) Preludes IV.
(c) The Words to Say It.
(d) Possession.

5. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers struggle to interpret?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Excitement and happiness.
(c) Imagined worlds.
(d) Character traits like anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What begins to tear at Cardinal's nerves?

2. What is Morrison skeptical about?

3. What does Morrison's work require her to consider?

4. Who was Cardinal warned against having relationships with?

5. Morrison says that what item reveals itself differently to each writer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Morrison hope that studies of racism will begin to examine?

2. What can happen if we learn about the way Africanism functions in the literary imagination?

3. What does the term Africanism mean?

4. Describe the character Sapphira and her motives.

5. What matters seem to challenge most as a writer and what effect does this have on her?

6. What does Toni Morrison think about Marie Cardinal's book?

7. How does Morrison view other writers?

8. How does Morrison describe the world that we live in today, and what effect does it have on her as a writer?

9. According to Morrison, what does a black woman represent to literature but not to herself?

10. Describe Morrison's statement that the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

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