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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “James Baldwin Eulogy” through “The Writer Before the Page”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that immigration from the Old World to the New World is usually seen as what?
(a) A flight from oppression to freedom.
(b) A religious pilgimage.
(c) A desire to unite with the long history of indigenous peoples.
(d) A quest to spread European culture to the New World.

2. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that when she was younger she found something in writing that she could not find in life itself--what was it?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Justice.
(c) Sovereignty.
(d) Love.

3. Morrison's discussion of Huckleberry Finn in "Black Matter(s)" is intended as an illustration of what?
(a) Historical accuracy in fiction.
(b) Gothic Romanticism.
(c) American Africanism.
(d) The shadow of Puritanism in fiction.

4. In "The Writer Before the Page," Morrison explains what about the structure of her novels?
(a) She finds chapter and part designations unhelpful.
(b) She always begins with a careful outline.
(c) She is frustrated when the parts feel fragmentary.
(d) She dislikes nonlinear narrative.

5. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?
(a) To compare the conquerors with the average citizen today.
(b) To argue that history will always be cruel and inhumane.
(c) To question her audience's understanding of history.
(d) To illustrate the bloody history of wealth accumulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?

2. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," the slave population became the focus of what fundamental feeling of the colonists?

3. In her "James Baldwin Eulogy," Morrison makes an allusion to what Biblical story?

4. In "Race Matters," Morrison creates a metaphorical comparison between "race-specific, race-free" language and what?

5. In "The Writer Before the Page," Morrison says that she wants to do what with her writing?

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