You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down True or False

1. "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? -> Sarah and Pam
2. "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? -> Andrea Clement White
3. Walker says this of one of her main characters: "Afterwards, she would be truly a woman of her time." After what, exactly? -> She takes her first lover.
4. "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 use of pornography
5. "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

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