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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 her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?
(a) An addict.
(b) A slave.
(c) A monster.
(d) A victim.

2. In "Race Matters," what word does Morrison call an unsatisfying and shallow ending for Beloved?
(a) Remember.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Audacity.
(d) House.

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

4. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," what does Morrison call the "ghost in the machine"?
(a) The blackbody.
(b) The slavebody.
(c) Racism.
(d) Poverty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison praise the National Endowment for the Arts for in "The Individual Artist"?

2. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that a key "absence" in writing about racism is the omission of its impact on whom?

3. Morrison begins "Moral Inhabitants" with a list of what Colonial import and export items?

4. In "The Individual Artist," why does Morrison say that the romantic vision of the artist is a "Procrustean bed"?

5. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?

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