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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. According to "Harlem on My Mind," the term "postblack" refers to whom?
(a) Critics who make race the key factor in their analysis of works of art.
(b) Black artists who distance themselves from Blackness by identifying with white culture.
(c) Critics who refuse to evaluate Black art according to the aesthetics of the Black community.
(d) Black artists who want their art to be evaluated by aesthetic standards only--not classified according to their race.

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

3. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison points out that in the original Grimm's version, the stepsisters were what?
(a) The instigators of Cinderella's torment.
(b) Oppressed just like Cinderella.
(c) Beautiful, powerful women.
(d) Desperate for their mother's love.

4. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that tow of the thematic concerns of her work are race and what?
(a) History.
(b) Home.
(c) Gender.
(d) Liberty.

5. In "Black Matter(s)," what aspect of American slavery does Morrison claim makes its impact so long-lasting in American culture?
(a) The breakup of slave families.
(b) The religion of slave-owners.
(c) The skin color of the slaves.
(d) Laws against teaching slaves to read and write.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison opens by joking that because she was once a student at the place she is now speaking, what might happen after her speech?

2. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison introduces Rafferty's criticism of Milan Kundera's Eurocentrism because she says that it can do what?

3. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison's central claim is that women should not do what?

4. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that the public interest has been redefined as what?

5. In "Moral Inhabitants," Morrison says that the ability to make fine distinctions shows what?

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