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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Interlude--Black Matter(s), including the essays “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” through “Hard, True, and Lasting”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," what element does Morrison say is an aspect of the European American response to chaos lacking in the indigenous response?
(a) Disrespect.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Wonder.
(d) Meditation.

2. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison relates an anecdote about which historical figure?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(d) Mary Shelly.

3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?
(a) Deliberate imagining that creates intimacy with the Other.
(b) A meditative state that improves the creative capacity of the Self.
(c) An impractical luxury we cannot afford in modern times.
(d) Wasted time engaged in wishful thinking.

4. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison compares the old woman in the story to what?
(a) A writer.
(b) God.
(c) A reader.
(d) A prophet.

5. Store displays arranged to look like the interiors of houses and the interiors of houses arranged to look like store displays is an example Morrison gives of which aspect of globalism?
(a) The erasure of the line between public and private.
(b) Corporate control of formerly public spaces.
(c) Its division of people into "center" and "margin."
(d) The boundless creation of wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Moral Inhabitants," Morrison says that the ability to make fine distinctions shows what?

2. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison notes that she almost titled the essay something else--what?

3. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?

4. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison compares the restriction of the canon by traditional Western standards to what?

5. In "The Future of Time," what does Morrison say it seems like "the future" means to people today?

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