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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 describe Sapphira and the Slave Girl as being an example of?
(a) Fulfilling language and lackluster art.
(b) Willful critical blindness.
(c) Urgency in American literature.
(d) Immediate Africanist presence.

2. What is "the Thing"?
(a) Classic literature.
(b) Morrison's distaste for Africanist literature.
(c) Louis Armstrong concert.
(d) Cardinal's illness.

3. According to Cardinal, what does America plan to slaughter?
(a) United Kingdom.
(b) Iran.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Algeria.

4. What notion must a writer be aware of when reading and writing?
(a) Anger.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Racism.
(d) Risk.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Morrison's point of view, what does the fabrication of an Africanist presence a reflexive mediation on?

3. Who does the main female character in Sapphira and the Slave Girl demand power over?

4. According to Morrison, what demands are put on black people?

5. What book discusses certain kinds of readings that seem inextricable from certain experiences of writing and knowledge?

(see the answer key)

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