Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an example of the concept of black figuration?
(a) The manifestion of Cardinal's illness.
(b) Slavery in American history.
(c) Morrison's reading style.
(d) Africanism in American literature.

2. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?
(a) Reading Hemingway.
(b) Studying Africanist literature.
(c) Louis Armstrong concert.
(d) Reading a book by Morrison.

3. What is Morrison skeptical about?
(a) The Words to Say It is an autobiography.
(b) The Words to Say It is a work of fiction.
(c) The author of The Words to Say It is a real person.
(d) The author of The Words to Say It was actually healed.

4. What does Morrison reflect on the consequences of in the preface?
(a) Modern music.
(b) Contemporary novels.
(c) Classic literature.
(d) Jazz music.

5. According to Morrison, what demands are put on black people?
(a) Persistence and drive.
(b) Hope and loss.
(c) Purity and restraint.
(d) Anger and acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Morrison claim to struggle with language that evokes hidden signals?

2. Which of the following does Morrison acknowledge?

3. What hidden signals does Morrison look for?

4. What book discusses certain kinds of readings that seem inextricable from certain experiences of writing and knowledge?

5. What does Morrison wonder most about Cardinal?

(see the answer key)

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