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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Hard, True, and Lasting," Morrison says that what feeling is the first one writers feel when they begin to write?
2. What is one of the main subjects of Beloved?
3. In "Invisible Ink," Morrison says that she would like to read a book where what is left ambiguous?
4. In "Grendel and His Mother," what claim does Morrison make for Beowulf?
5. In "Tribute to Romare Bearden," Morrison says that there was once a false division of art into what two categories?
Short Essay Questions
1. In “The Site of Memory," what reasons does Morrison give for finding her inclusion in an anthology about memoir to be both strange and appropriate?
2. In “God’s Language," what does Morrison say is the problem with trying to use modern language to describe Biblical concepts?
3. In “Tribute to Romare Bearden," Morrison praises Bearden's work as a dialogue between artists; how does she see his work impacting her own?
4. What point is Morrison trying to illustrate when she brings up the origins of Ancient Greece in “Unspeakable Things Unspoken"?
5. According to “The Writer Before the Page," what is the relationship between Hannah Peace and Sula?
6. In “Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," what confuses Morrison about Stein's portrayal of Rose?
7. In “Introduction of Peter Sellars," what are the main points of Morrison's praise for Peter Sellars as an artist?
8. In “Memory, Creation, and Fiction," what Black cultural aesthetic expectations does Morrison discuss as important in her work, and why is it important to her to use them?
9. In “The Trouble with Paradise," what does Morrison mean when she says that fiction writers have to stare unblinking into the "realm of difference"?
10. In “James Baldwin Eulogy,” what does Morrison describe as Baldwin's contribution to language?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, when he says, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here,” he is referring to the importance of his own speech versus the significance of the dead of the Battle of Gettysburg. Explain at least three similarities in tone and/or content to Morrison’s “The Dead of September 11.”
Essay Topic 2
In "The Source of Self-Regard," Morrison discusses the image of a bit--a kind of torture device used to silence slaves. Explain how she incorporates this into Beloved--how she conveys the idea to the reader and why she makes the choices she does.
Essay Topic 3
In "God's Language," Morrison suggests that religious ideas, and the idea of paradise particularly, are difficult to convey in a modern context. Why does she believe this and what is her proposed solution?
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