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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 say produces work?
(a) Relaxation.
(b) Perseverance.
(c) Stress.
(d) Imagination.

2. Who was Cardinal warned against having relationships with?
(a) Jewish people.
(b) Black people.
(c) Arab people.
(d) White people.

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

4. Why does Morrison claim to struggle with language that evokes hidden signals?
(a) She is a black writer.
(b) She is a bad writer.
(c) She is a female writer.
(d) She is a good writer.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Possession?

2. What does Morrison reflect on the consequences of in the preface?

3. 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?

4. What does Morrison teach?

5. What is American literature described as being in Playing in the Dark?

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