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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. What is an example of the concept of black figuration?
(a) The manifestion of Cardinal's illness.
(b) Slavery in American history.
(c) Africanism in American literature.
(d) Morrison's reading style.

2. Where were the lectures that Playing in the Dark is based on given?
(a) Harvard.
(b) University of Washington.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Princeton.

3. According to Cardinal, what does America plan to slaughter?
(a) Iran.
(b) United Kingdom.
(c) Algeria.
(d) Mexico.

4. Who is the author of What Maisie Knew?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Willa Cather.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Toni Morrison.

5. Who does the main female character in Sapphira and the Slave Girl demand power over?
(a) Society.
(b) Men.
(c) Children.
(d) Her slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is American literature described as being in Playing in the Dark?

2. In the attack on Algeria, what does Cardinal see?

3. What is assumed about literature much of the time, in Morrison's point of view?

4. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?

5. Morrison claims that she does not want to replace what with Afrocentric domination?

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