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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 is the opposite of restrained in the dichotomy present in Morrison's book?
(a) Pure.
(b) Wicked.
(c) Anger.
(d) Benevolent.

2. In what role does Morrison see the subject of a dream?
(a) Black woman.
(b) Reader.
(c) Artist.
(d) Writer.

3. How does Morrison feel about the scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?
(a) Distrusting.
(b) Accepting.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Angry.

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

5. Which of the following is true about Africanism around the world?
(a) American literature is the only type of literature that features Africanism.
(b) African literature is the only type of literature that has not constructed Africanism.
(c) Europe is the only first-world region that does not acknowledge Africanism.
(d) The US is not unique in its construction of Africanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison debate the validity of?

2. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?

3. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?

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

5. What begins to tear at Cardinal's nerves?

(see the answer key)

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