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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until recently, what did Morrison assume about all readers of American fiction?
(a) They are men.
(b) They are women.
(c) They are white.
(d) They are raceless.

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

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

4. Where did Cardinal grow up?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Algeria.
(c) United States.
(d) Mexico.

5. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?
(a) Reading Hemingway.
(b) Reading a book by Morrison.
(c) Studying Africanist literature.
(d) Louis Armstrong concert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an example of the concept of black figuration?

2. How many pages into The Words to Say It does "the thing" happen?

3. Possessed, where does Cardinal run?

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

5. Where does Morrison's vulnerability lie?

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