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

2. Africanism acquiring a metaphysical necessity is not the same as losing its _______?
(a) Independence.
(b) Ideological utility.
(c) Literary blackness.
(d) Metaphorical necessity.

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

4. What is the first role that the Africanist character serves as?
(a) A way to evoke emotion.
(b) Benevolent figure.
(c) Intentional racist target.
(d) Surrogate.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?

3. In the Henry Morgan book, who is portrayed as being the most violent?

4. What color does Catherine dye her hair?

5. In the book about Faulkner, what "show their flaws best in written form"?

Short Essay Questions

1. From Morrison's point of view, how do writers see whiteness?

2. Describe Catherine's desires in The Garden of Eden. What does this point out?

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

4. Describe the quote Morrison uses from James Snead's book on Faulkner?

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

6. How does Huckleberry Finn critique class and race?

7. What does William Carlos Williams's Adam describe?

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

9. According to Morrison, what does Poe's work show?

10. What is the significance of nurses in Hemingway's work?

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