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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. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?
(a) The first time she was called a racial epithet.
(b) Her own immigration to America from Ghana.
(c) When the church collection plate was passed to raise money for Africa.
(d) When she struggled to understand a movie set in Asia.

2. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," the slave population became the focus of what fundamental feeling of the colonists?
(a) The "immigrant's hope."
(b) The "Pilgrim's awe and piety."
(c) The "outcast's terror."
(d) The "Romantic yearning for freedom."

3. In "Race Matters," Morrison compares race to what?
(a) A map.
(b) A ladder.
(c) A jailer.
(d) A set of clothing.

4. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," what element does Morrison say is an aspect of the European American response to chaos lacking in the indigenous response?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Wonder.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) Disrespect.

5. Store displays arranged to look like the interiors of houses and the interiors of houses arranged to look like store displays is an example Morrison gives of which aspect of globalism?
(a) The boundless creation of wealth.
(b) The erasure of the line between public and private.
(c) Its division of people into "center" and "margin."
(d) Corporate control of formerly public spaces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?

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

3. In "Academic Whispers," Morrison says that interview requests used to make her feel like she was being used as what?

4. Morrison claims that after WWII, the language used to discuss war became more what?

5. Morrison compares the Africa of the Western imagination to what legendary monster?

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