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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 "The Future of Time," Morrison points to what two forces as responsible for our modern relationship to the future?
(a) Science and technology.
(b) Religion and literature.
(c) Secularism and the Cold War.
(d) Women's Liberation and the Civil Rights Movement.

2. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?
(a) Literature.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) The past.

3. In "Academic Whispers," who does Morrison say should be asked to speak about racism?
(a) Writers.
(b) Racists.
(c) Victims of racism.
(d) Historians.

4. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?
(a) "We are being bullied into understanding."
(b) "The future is already catastrophe."
(c) "Art is temporal."
(d) "What will we think during those longer, healthier lives?"

5. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," what does Morrison call the "ghost in the machine"?
(a) Poverty.
(b) The slavebody.
(c) Racism.
(d) The blackbody.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Race in Mind," Morrison asks for more thoughtful work from what group?

2. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," what is a key factor in national identity?

3. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?

4. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," Morrison proposes that the third response to chaos is what?

5. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?

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