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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Interlude--Black Matter(s), including the essays “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” through “Hard, True, and Lasting”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?
(a) Nonaligned humanists.
(b) Radical socialists.
(c) Integrationists.
(d) Libertarians.

2. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," what is a key factor in national identity?
(a) Immigration.
(b) Politics.
(c) Literature.
(d) Religion.

3. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison credits what group with beginning to open up the canon?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) The American academy.
(c) Feminist scholars.
(d) Black writers.

4. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that we live in the age of what?
(a) Inquiry.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Spectacle.
(d) Resignation.

5. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?
(a) New York was not ready for Black art in 1969, and attendance was very low.
(b) It contained racist materials and did not include much art by African American artists.
(c) The exhibit was too ambitious and tried to incorporate too many different kinds of art.
(d) Critics did not understand the cultural aesthetics the exhibit represented.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?

3. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," Gothic Romance is evidence of what feeling in the new nation?

4. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison compares the restriction of the canon by traditional Western standards to what?

5. In "Literature and Public Life," what does Morrison say shapes our understanding of community?

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