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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Black Matters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of Three Lives?
(a) Willa Cather.
(b) Marie Cardinal.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Henry James.

2. What is "the Thing"?
(a) Classic literature.
(b) Louis Armstrong concert.
(c) Cardinal's illness.
(d) Morrison's distaste for Africanist literature.

3. What does Morrison's work require her to consider?
(a) How racialized she can be.
(b) How much further she can extend her study of American literature.
(c) How free she can be.
(d) How gender neutral she can be.

4. What is assumed about literature much of the time, in Morrison's point of view?
(a) American literature is worthless for black Americans.
(b) American literature is unshaped by black presence.
(c) American literature is only read by Americans.
(d) American literature is unshaped by slavery.

5. In the attack on Algeria, what does Cardinal see?
(a) White slaughter of a black mother.
(b) Vengeful slaughter of an innocent.
(c) White slaughter of a white mother.
(d) White slaughter of an Indian mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Sapphira's slave?

2. Which of the following is true about Africanism around the world?

3. Which author does Morrison mention first as containing black references?

4. When was a criticism written deeming the term "darky" acceptable?

5. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?

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