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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the dichotomies is shown in the example of a slave woman being kind to her mistress's children but her own mother is not good to her?
(a) Sinful but enticing.
(b) Benevolent and wicked.
(c) Angry and resentful.
(d) Pure and restrained.

3. Where does Morrison teach?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Brown.
(c) Harvard.
(d) UCLA.

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

5. Which of the following does Morrison acknowledge?
(a) That each writer tries to avoid writing about race.
(b) That each reader reads differently.
(c) That each reader is looking for something different.
(d) That each author is biased.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?

3. What does Morrison say produces work?

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

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

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