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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Morrison wish studies of racism would focus on?
(a) Impact of racism on children.
(b) Impact of racism on those who perpetuate it.
(c) Impact of racism on readers and writers.
(d) Impact of racism on society's foundation.

2. Who gave the lectures that Morrison bases Playing in the Dark on?
(a) Westley Morford.
(b) Willard Mast.
(c) William Massey.
(d) Wexley Moth.

3. What is the name of Sapphira's slave?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Stephanie.
(c) Lola.
(d) Amy.

4. According to Morrison, what demands are put on black people?
(a) Purity and restraint.
(b) Hope and loss.
(c) Anger and acceptance.
(d) Persistence and drive.

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

6. In the attack on Algeria, what does Cardinal see?
(a) Vengeful slaughter of an innocent.
(b) White slaughter of a white mother.
(c) White slaughter of an Indian mother.
(d) White slaughter of a black mother.

7. How many years back did the presence of African-Americans in the US begin?
(a) 400.
(b) 600.
(c) 500.
(d) 300.

8. Where did Cardinal grow up?
(a) Argentina.
(b) United States.
(c) Algeria.
(d) Mexico.

9. What does Morrison not mention the world as being?
(a) Genderized.
(b) Sexualized.
(c) Liberalized.
(d) Racialized.

10. Who was Cardinal warned against having relationships with?
(a) Jewish people.
(b) Black people.
(c) Arab people.
(d) White people.

11. Who does Sapphira plot to rape her slave?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her nephew.
(d) Her son.

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

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

14. Where does Morrison's vulnerability lie?
(a) She is a woman.
(b) Romanticizing blackness.
(c) Caring for racial superiority.
(d) She is biased.

15. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers struggle to interpret?
(a) Excitement and happiness.
(b) Imagined worlds.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Character traits like anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Morrison interested in determining about domination?

2. Which of the following best describes Marie Cardinal?

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

4. What does Morrison believe we need to learn about to discover the nature and cause of literary whiteness?

5. Which of the following words does Morrison use to describe writers?

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