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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Morrison's vulnerability lie?
(a) She is a woman.
(b) Caring for racial superiority.
(c) Romanticizing blackness.
(d) She is biased.

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

3. What does Cardinal's first therapy realization concern?
(a) Music started her fall to madness.
(b) Dichotomy thrust upon people of color.
(c) Sexuality of different races.
(d) Prepubescent sensuality.

4. How many lectures is Playing in the Dark based on?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

5. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers fight for?
(a) Individuality and duality.
(b) Determination and fear.
(c) Defintion and defiance.
(d) Meaning and responsibility.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two things does Morrison claim not to be extremely distinct for a writer?

3. What does Morrison claim is not representative of a black woman for her?

4. Who is the author of Possession?

5. What does The Words to Say It document about the author?

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