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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 type of writer is Poe?
(a) Irish.
(b) American.
(c) English.
(d) German.

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

3. According to Morrison, what do writers seem to think whiteness is?
(a) Intolerant.
(b) Benevolent.
(c) Loud.
(d) Mute.

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

5. According to Morrison, what highlights freedom?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) Freedom of the press.
(c) Literature.
(d) Slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?

2. Which of the following is not a linguistic strategy employed in fiction to engage the serious consequences of blacks as an economy of stereotype as listed by Morrison?

3. According to Dunbar, from what do his slaves want freedom from?

4. Morrison's investigation is specifically listed as not being one of which of the following?

5. In one of Hemingway's works, what does the character named Catherine aspire to be for her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Morrison try to make it clear that she is not doing?

2. Describe the unmanageable slips throughout Poe's work.

3. According to Morrison, who responds best to culture and why?

4. How does Hemingway make the serviceability of the Africanist presence more pronounced?

5. What does Morrison hope to avert the critical gaze from and to?

6. Why is the act of ignoring race in literature a racist act?

7. Describe one major theme Morrison lists being consistent with American literature.

8. Why do Africanist characters serve as surrogates and enablers?

9. How is Hemingway's work distant from African Americans?

10. What role do black men play in Hemingway's works?

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