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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's work require her to consider?
(a) How free she can be.
(b) How racialized she can be.
(c) How gender neutral she can be.
(d) How much further she can extend her study of American literature.

2. What is Morrison interested in determining about domination?
(a) Where domination comes from.
(b) How domination becomes possible.
(c) Who encourages domination.
(d) How domination spreads.

3. Which of the following words does Morrison use to describe writers?
(a) Telling.
(b) Lustrious.
(c) Angry.
(d) Probing.

4. What is an example of the concept of black figuration?
(a) Slavery in American history.
(b) The manifestion of Cardinal's illness.
(c) Morrison's reading style.
(d) Africanism in American literature.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many lectures is Playing in the Dark based on?

3. For Morrison, when a writer is challenged and activities are more difficult, what else do they become?

4. How many pages into The Words to Say It does "the thing" happen?

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

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