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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," Morrison proposes that the third response to chaos is what?
(a) Stillness.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Hierarchy.

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

3. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that a key "absence" in writing about racism is the omission of its impact on whom?
(a) Non-Black minorities.
(b) Future generations.
(c) Perpetrators.
(d) Women.

4. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?
(a) "What will we think during those longer, healthier lives?"
(b) "We are being bullied into understanding."
(c) "Art is temporal."
(d) "The future is already catastrophe."

5. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?
(a) Critics did not understand the cultural aesthetics the exhibit represented.
(b) The exhibit was too ambitious and tried to incorporate too many different kinds of art.
(c) New York was not ready for Black art in 1969, and attendance was very low.
(d) It contained racist materials and did not include much art by African American artists.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is a key characteristic of globalism, according to Morrison?

3. To whom does Morrison address her remarks about the dead of September 11, 2001?

4. What question does Morrison say is at the center of of government?

5. In "Hard, True, and Lasting," Morrison says that she can tolerate being alienated from the dominant culture because she knows what?

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