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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 is the main theme in Sapphira and the Slave Girl?
(a) Power.
(b) Love.
(c) Spite.
(d) Trust.

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

3. What book discusses certain kinds of readings that seem inextricable from certain experiences of writing and knowledge?
(a) Preludes IV.
(b) Playing in the Dark.
(c) The Words to Say It.
(d) Possession.

4. Who is the third author Morrison mentions as including black references in his or her work?
(a) Palahniuk.
(b) O'Connor.
(c) Bronte.
(d) Shaw.

5. According to Morrison, what do reading and writing require?
(a) Anger.
(b) Perseverance.
(c) Fear.
(d) Alertness.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Morrison claim is not representative of a black woman for her?

3. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers struggle to interpret?

4. What does Morrison believe we need to learn about to discover the nature and cause of literary whiteness?

5. What notion must a writer be aware of when reading and writing?

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