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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) Black literature.
(b) African-American.
(c) Americanism.
(d) Africanism.

2. Who did Morrison thank for helping her with the book?
(a) Peter Destiny.
(b) Peter Dratton.
(c) Peter Dimock.
(d) Peter Delano.

3. Which word best describes Sapphira?
(a) Benevolent.
(b) Wicked.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Desperate.

4. Who is the author of the quote from Preludes IV?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does Morrison claim that critics do not say about Sapphira and the Slave Girl?

4. What does Morrison wish studies of racism would focus on?

5. Who wrote The Words to Say It?

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