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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. For Morrison, when a writer is challenged and activities are more difficult, what else do they become?
(a) Less valuable.
(b) More exciting.
(c) Less significant.
(d) More rewarding.

2. 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?
(a) Sinful but enticing.
(b) Pure and restrained.
(c) Angry and resentful.
(d) Benevolent and wicked.

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

4. What does Morrison believe we need to learn about to discover the nature and cause of literary whiteness?
(a) Who invented Africanism.
(b) Why we rely on Africanism in literature.
(c) How Africanism functions.
(d) Why we read American fiction.

5. Which of the following does Morrison say studies of racism focus on?
(a) Victims.
(b) Abusers.
(c) Activists.
(d) Accusers.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Morrison read The Words to Say It?

2. What is Morrison interested in determining about domination?

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

4. Where does Morrison claim to apply the knowledge in Playing in the Dark?

5. Which type of artist does Morrison describe as being the most anarchic?

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