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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Morrison start a file to document?
(a) Instances of white people causing disturbances in Africanist literature.
(b) Instances of black people being impressed by white people.
(c) Instances of black people igniting moments of discovery in literature.
(d) Instances of Africanist literature that do not acknowledge racial superiority.

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

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

4. What is American literature described as being in Playing in the Dark?
(a) A treasure trove.
(b) A melting pot.
(c) A bookshelf.
(d) A closet.

5. Possessed, where does Cardinal run?
(a) Into a concert hall.
(b) Into the park.
(c) Into a theater.
(d) Into the street.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following does Morrison acknowledge?

4. What persuaded Morrison to read The Words to Say It?

5. Where does Morrison's vulnerability lie?

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