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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 compares the Africa of the Western imagination to what legendary monster?
(a) Leviathan.
(b) Grendel.
(c) Medusa.
(d) The Sphinx.

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

3. 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) Love.
(b) Sovereignty.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Justice.

4. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," Morrison proposes that the third response to chaos is what?
(a) Stillness.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Hierarchy.
(d) Laughter.

5. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that we can understand something important about literary "whiteness" by studying what?
(a) Literary Blackness.
(b) Changes to the canon over time.
(c) Black writers.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison says that we must use freedom to do what?

2. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison brings up Bernal's two models of Greek history in order to illustrate what point?

3. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?

4. What does the title "Academic Whispers" refer to?

5. In "Hard, True, and Lasting," Morrison says that she identifies the things she loves and values by doing what?

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