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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 does Morrison describe Sapphira and the Slave Girl as being an example of?
(a) Immediate Africanist presence.
(b) Willful critical blindness.
(c) Urgency in American literature.
(d) Fulfilling language and lackluster art.

2. What does Morrison see that the subject of the dream is?
(a) The action in the dream.
(b) The dreamer.
(c) The symbolism of the dream.
(d) The dream itself.

3. What does Morrison claim that critics do not say about Sapphira and the Slave Girl?
(a) Why it was written.
(b) Why it is successful.
(c) Why people read it.
(d) Why it is a failure.

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

5. What is the opposite of restrained in the dichotomy present in Morrison's book?
(a) Benevolent.
(b) Anger.
(c) Pure.
(d) Wicked.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cardinal, what does America plan to slaughter?

2. Why does Morrison claim to struggle with language that evokes hidden signals?

3. What does Morrison say produces work?

4. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?

5. What is Morrison skeptical about?

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