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Example

Question 1 of 10

Question 1. The student is quoting from page 195 of the following essay: Pérez-Torres, Rafael. “Between Presence and Absence: Beloved, Postmodernism, and Blackness.” Tony Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook, edited by William L. Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay, Oxford UP, 1999, pp. 179-201.
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Question 2 of 10

Question 2. The student is quoting from page 183 of the following collection: Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1885. Edited by Gregg Camfield, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. Bedford College Editions.
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Question 3 of 10

Question 3. The student is quoting from page 52 of the following book: Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Vintage Books, 1993.
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Question 4 of 10

Question 4. The student is paraphrasing from page 32 of the following book: Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Plume, 1988.The works cited list includes another work by Morrison.
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Question 5 of 10

Question 5. The student is quoting from page 339 of the following essay: Mayer, Sylvia. “ ‘You Like Huckleberries?’ Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African American Literature and Culture, edited by Werner Sollors and Maria Diedrich, Harvard UP, 1994, pp. 339-46. Harvard English Studies 19.
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Question 6 of 10

Question 6. The student is quoting from the following online source: Railton, Stephen. “Imaging ‘Slavery’ in MT’s Books.” Mark Twain in His Times, Stephen Railton / U of Virginia Library, 2012, twain.lib.virginia.edu/.
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Question 7 of 10

Question 7. The student is quoting from page 207 of the following article: Amare, Nicole, and Alan Manning. “Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.” The Explicator, vol. 62, no. 4, Summer 2004, pp. 206-09.
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Question 8 of 10

Question 8. The student is quoting from a book review accessed online: Atwood, Margaret. “Jaunted by Their Nightmares.” Review of Beloved, by Toni Morrison. The New York Times, 13 Sept. 1987, nyti.ms/Y66IAB.
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Question 9 of 10

Question 9. The student is quoting Mark Twain from page 377 of the following article in a collection: Kaplan, Justin. “Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn.” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy, edited by Gerald Graff and James Phelan, 2nd ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004 , pp. 371-81.
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Question 10 of 10

Question 10. The student is quoting from the following article accessed in an online database: Hamlin, Annemarie, and Constance Joyner. “Racism and Real Life: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the Undergraduate Survey of American Literature.” Radical Teacher, vol. 80, 2007, pp. 12-18, www.mrsnewtonphs.com/uploads/8/7/7/4/8774500/racism_and_real_life.pdf.
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