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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “James Baldwin Eulogy” through “The Writer Before the Page”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?
(a) To compare the conquerors with the average citizen today.
(b) To illustrate the bloody history of wealth accumulation.
(c) To argue that history will always be cruel and inhumane.
(d) To question her audience's understanding of history.

2. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?
(a) Slavery was a violent and degrading institution.
(b) Great leaders are "ahead of their time."
(c) History only shows us one side of these leaders.
(d) Great leaders are born, not made.

3. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," when Morrison suggests that writing about slavery cuts away at the scar tissue the blackbody uses to hide the slavebody, what technique is she using?
(a) Ethos.
(b) Logos.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Figurative language.

4. In "The Writer Before the Page," Morrison compares a successful text to what?
(a) A guidebook.
(b) A shattered mirror.
(c) A historical narrative.
(d) A map.

5. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that when she was younger she found something in writing that she could not find in life itself--what was it?
(a) Sovereignty.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Justice.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Writer Before the Page," Morrison says that she wants to do what with her writing?

2. In "Arts Advocacy," Morrison recounts discovering that a highly regarded artist vetoed funding for another artist for what reason?

3. In "God's Language," what does Morrison say gets more attention than paradise?

4. In "God's Language," Morrison uses the word "ruminating" to describe what?

5. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what does Morrison blame for diminishing our desire to care for others in modern times?

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