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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Romancing the Shadow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Morrison skeptical about?
(a) The author of The Words to Say It was actually healed.
(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 Words to Say It is an autobiography.

2. Who is the author of Three Lives?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Marie Cardinal.
(c) Willa Cather.
(d) Henry James.

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

4. What does Morrison reflect on the consequences of in the preface?
(a) Jazz music.
(b) Classic literature.
(c) Modern music.
(d) Contemporary novels.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What persuaded Morrison to read The Words to Say It?

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

3. What does Morrison start a file to document?

4. Who does Morrison attribute as being the most sensitive type of artist?

5. When did Morrison read The Words to Say It?

(see the answer key)

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