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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. Which of the following words refers to denotative and connotative blackness that the African people have come to signify?
(a) Americanism.
(b) Africanism.
(c) African-American.
(d) Black literature.

2. Who is Sapphira jealous of?
(a) Her slave.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her sister.

3. Morrison says that what item reveals itself differently to each writer?
(a) Notebook.
(b) Pen.
(c) Book.
(d) Paper.

4. What is Morrison skeptical about?
(a) The Words to Say It is an autobiography.
(b) The Words to Say It is a work of fiction.
(c) The author of The Words to Say It is a real person.
(d) The author of The Words to Say It was actually healed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison argue for extending?

2. Which of the following elements of racism does Morrison say studies of racism focus on?

3. What analogy does Morrison use to describe what studies of racism should focus on?

4. What is an example of the concept of black figuration?

5. Which author does Morrison mention first as containing black references?

(see the answer key)

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