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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. Where does Morrison's vulnerability lie?
(a) She is biased.
(b) Caring for racial superiority.
(c) Romanticizing blackness.
(d) She is a woman.

2. Where were the lectures that Playing in the Dark is based on given?
(a) University of Washington.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

3. Who is the author of Sapphira and the Slave Girl?
(a) Willa Cather.
(b) Williamm Shakespeare.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Toni Morrison.

4. What does Cardinal's first therapy realization concern?
(a) Prepubescent sensuality.
(b) Sexuality of different races.
(c) Dichotomy thrust upon people of color.
(d) Music started her fall to madness.

5. What does Morrison claim has impoverished literature?
(a) Critics of American literature.
(b) Anger at Eurocentric culture.
(c) New readers.
(d) Agendas in criticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?

2. How many years back did the presence of African-Americans in the US begin?

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

4. What does The Words to Say It document about the author?

5. Morrison says that what item reveals itself differently to each writer?

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