This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “The Source of Self-Regard” through “Invisible Ink: Reading the Writing and Writing the Reading”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Moral Inhabitants," Morrison says that the ability to make fine distinctions shows what?
(a) Morality.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Prejudice.

2. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison remarks on the absence of what in slave narratives?
(a) Details of everyday life on the plantations.
(b) Sophisticated use of language.
(c) Historical accuracy.
(d) Depictions of the narrator's interior life.

3. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison says that slave narratives had two purposes: one was to record the life of an individual human being, and the other was what?
(a) To contribute to the historical record.
(b) To rebut narratives by plantation owners.
(c) To condemn their former masters.
(d) To advance the cause of abolition.

4. In "Memory, Creation, and Fiction," Morrison says what of her process of writing Tar Baby?
(a) She chose the most memorable details from her memory of being told the story.
(b) She deliberately excluded any details that could be found in Western retellings of the story.
(c) She edited out the more disturbing details of the original story.
(d) She researched several versions of the folktale.

5. In "Rememory," Morrison complains that a racist society has what effect on her as a writer?
(a) It prevents her from being honest.
(b) It makes her question her talent.
(c) It makes her feel burdened by her Blackness.
(d) It hobbles her imagination.