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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Morrison, what demands are put on black people?
(a) Hope and loss.
(b) Persistence and drive.
(c) Purity and restraint.
(d) Anger and acceptance.

2. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?
(a) Exemplary black and white characters.
(b) Literary whiteness and blackness.
(c) Racial profiling in literature.
(d) Literary feminism.

3. What did Cardinal tell her doctor not to keep in his office?
(a) A gargoyle.
(b) A clock.
(c) A framed photo of Louis Armstrong.
(d) A water dish for his cat.

4. Who did Morrison thank for helping her with the book?
(a) Peter Dratton.
(b) Peter Delano.
(c) Peter Destiny.
(d) Peter Dimock.

5. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers struggle to interpret?
(a) Imagined worlds.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Excitement and happiness.
(d) Character traits like anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison wonder most about Cardinal?

2. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers fight for?

3. Where did Cardinal grow up?

4. What does Cardinal's first therapy realization concern?

5. Who was Cardinal warned against having relationships with?

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