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

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

3. Who gave the lectures that Morrison bases Playing in the Dark on?
(a) William Massey.
(b) Westley Morford.
(c) Willard Mast.
(d) Wexley Moth.

4. What does Morrison argue for extending?
(a) The study of racism.
(b) The study of African literature.
(c) The study of American literature.
(d) The study of racial interactions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the third author Morrison mentions as including black references in his or her work?

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

3. What does Morrison reflect on the consequences of in the preface?

4. Who is the author of Sapphira and the Slave Girl?

5. Who was Cardinal warned against having relationships with?

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