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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “The Trouble with Paradise” through “Faulkner and Woman”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?
(a) Most modern Americans do not have any historic ties to slavery.
(b) Slavery's consequences have been the same throughout history.
(c) It is an ancient practice that is not always tied to racism.
(d) Writing about it can be cruel to modern African Americans.

2. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?
(a) Excluded Black artists from a major retrospective exhibition.
(b) Mounted an exhibition more concerned with Black politics than art.
(c) Focused on the question of what makes Black art Black.
(d) Devoted an entire exhibition to Romare Bearden.

3. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?
(a) Integrationists.
(b) Radical socialists.
(c) Nonaligned humanists.
(d) Libertarians.

4. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison proposes to show how memoir is similar to and different from what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Literary criticism.
(c) History.
(d) Poetry.

5. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that she refuses to write in what voice?
(a) The slave's.
(b) A masculine one.
(c) The master's.
(d) A race-specific one.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison credits what group with beginning to open up the canon?

2. In "The Writer Before the Page," Morrison compares a successful text to what?

3. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?

4. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?

5. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," What does Morrison refer to with the phrase "tongue-suicide"?

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