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Q. "They were still linked together, but it was not, now, the link of race, which had been tenuous in any case, and had not held up. They were simply two women, choosing to live as they liked in the world." Who are these enlightened women?
Irene and Anastasia
Sarah and Pam
Susan Marie and Lucy
Annie and Luna
Q. "She had seen her work accepted around the world, welcomed even, which was more than she'd ever dreamed possible for it. And yet—there remained an emptiness." Which of Walker's characters suffers in this way?
Annie
Andrea Clement White
Sarah
Anastasia
Q. Walker says this of one of her main characters: "Afterwards, she would be truly a woman of her time." After what, exactly?
She publishes her first book of poetry.
She faces up to prejudice at her school.
She takes her first lover.
She has her first abortion.
Q. "He knows that to make love to his wife as she really is, as who she really is—indeed, to make love to any other human being as they really are—will require a soul-rending look into himself […]." What is getting in the way of this character seeing his wife as she is?
His lover
His disillusionment with marriage
His dissatisfaction with work
His use of pornography
Q. "Until such a society is created, relationships of affection between black men and white women will always be poisoned […]." What kind of society is Walker referring to here?
A perfectly just one
One in which women are the majority
One in which men can't use porn
One in which authors don't have to struggle