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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 "Hard, True, and Lasting," Morrison says that she identifies the things she loves and values by doing what?
(a) Reading scholarly work.
(b) Contrasting them with the alien world around her.
(c) Focusing on their civilizing qualities.
(d) Imagining them in danger.

2. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison says that arguments against the inclusion of African American writings in the canon follow a sequence that ends with what belief?
(a) African American literature can be superior, but only by meeting the standards of the Western canon.
(b) African American literature does not exist.
(c) African American literature is a rich raw material but it needs refinement by a Western or European hand.
(d) African American literature is inferior.

3. 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 erasure of the line between public and private.
(b) Its division of people into "center" and "margin."
(c) Corporate control of formerly public spaces.
(d) The boundless creation of wealth.

4. In "Academic Whispers," Morrison says that interview requests used to make her feel like she was being used as what?
(a) "Literary enforcement."
(b) A "specimen."
(c) A "humanistic disciple."
(d) "Journalistic glue."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?

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

3. In "The Individual Artist," what does Morrison find interesting about the feud between literary critics from different schools of criticism?

4. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that we live in the age of what?

5. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," the slave population became the focus of what fundamental feeling of the colonists?

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