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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Black Matters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Marie Cardinal?
(a) White and privileged.
(b) Sensitive and young.
(c) Stressed and insane.
(d) Small and crass.

2. When did Morrison read The Words to Say It?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1978.

3. Who is the author of Three Lives?
(a) Marie Cardinal.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Willa Cather.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

4. What does Morrison teach?
(a) Women's studies.
(b) English composition.
(c) Racial Studies.
(d) American Literature.

5. What does Morrison say produces work?
(a) Perseverance.
(b) Stress.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Relaxation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Morrison's vulnerability lie?

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

3. Morrison claims that she does not want to replace what with Afrocentric domination?

4. In Morrison's point of view, what does the fabrication of an Africanist presence a reflexive mediation on?

5. What does Morrison's work require her to consider?

(see the answer key)

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