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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. What does The Words to Say It document about the author?
(a) The author's literary criticism of literature.
(b) The author's feelings about Africanist literature.
(c) The author's relationship.
(d) The author's therapy and healing.

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

3. Who does Morrison attribute as being the most sensitive type of artist?
(a) Painter.
(b) Writer.
(c) Illustrator.
(d) Reader.

4. Morrison claims that she does not want to replace what with Afrocentric domination?
(a) Eurocentric.
(b) Literature.
(c) White.
(d) American.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison propose to investigate?

2. Who does Sapphira plot to rape her slave?

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

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

5. Until recently, what did Morrison assume about all readers of American fiction?

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