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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 "Race Matters," Morrison says that she refuses to write in what voice?
(a) The master's.
(b) A race-specific one.
(c) A masculine one.
(d) The slave's.

2. In "Black Matter(s)," what does Morrison say she means by "American Africanism"?
(a) A claim for expansion of the literary canon to incorporate Black writers.
(b) A Black literary movement that centers Africanness.
(c) The historic systemic oppression of Black Americans.
(d) A white-American construct that defines "American" against a fabrication of Blackness.

3. In "Arts Advocacy," Morrison recounts discovering that a highly regarded artist vetoed funding for another artist for what reason?
(a) He found the other artist's work too controversial.
(b) He thought that having a secure income would ruin the other artist's work.
(c) He was jealous of the other artist's possible success.
(d) He knew that the other artist's work would sell better if the public saw him "struggling."

4. In "Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.," what does Morrison say she wonders about MLK?
(a) Whether he would be disappointed in her.
(b) How he preserved his sense of hope.
(c) Whether he would be satisfied with the progress Americans have made.
(d) Where he found his courage.

5. Morrison begins "Moral Inhabitants" with a list of what Colonial import and export items?
(a) Bibles and other religious tracts.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Indentured servants.
(d) Guns.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What form of literature does Morrison discuss at length in "Black Matter(s)"?

3. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison says that slave narratives had two purposes: one was to record the life of an individual human being, and the other was what?

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that she is willing to talk about typical graduation topics like the future, responsibility, and goodness, but not what?

5. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison retells the story of William Dunbar as an example of what?

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