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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 does Morrison describe as being the second feature of a non-American?
(a) Health.
(b) Financial status.
(c) Social status.
(d) Skills.

2. In Harry Morgan's crew, what is the name of the black man?
(a) Weston.
(b) Wesley.
(c) Weaton.
(d) Walter.

3. What is the third duty of a persona?
(a) Mirroring.
(b) Exemplifying.
(c) Fulfilling.
(d) Existing.

4. In Voyagers of the West, what are the settlers becoming?
(a) Dark.
(b) American.
(c) Light.
(d) Fearful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of America's population offers itself up as a surrogate, in Morrison's point of view?

2. Who wrote a book about Faulkner?

3. 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?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What characteristics does Morrison describe as being the distinguishing features of non-Americans?

2. According to Morrison, what does American literature represent a commentary of?

3. Why does Morrison deem Poe the most important early American writer?

4. Describe To Have and Have Not.

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

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

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

8. How does Morrison describe the Africanist persona?

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

10. How does early America distinguish itself by pressing toward a future of freedom?

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