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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," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?
(a) Devoted an entire exhibition to Romare Bearden.
(b) Focused on the question of what makes Black art Black.
(c) Excluded Black artists from a major retrospective exhibition.
(d) Mounted an exhibition more concerned with Black politics than art.

2. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?
(a) To compare the conquerors with the average citizen today.
(b) To question her audience's understanding of history.
(c) To illustrate the bloody history of wealth accumulation.
(d) To argue that history will always be cruel and inhumane.

3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?
(a) Criticize.
(b) Provoke.
(c) Remember.
(d) Reassure.

4. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison notes that she almost titled the essay something else--what?
(a) Canon Fodder.
(b) Canon Father.
(c) Cannon Fodder.
(d) Cannon Father.

5. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?
(a) He is now worthy of being a king.
(b) He fully inhabits Western ideals of masculinity.
(c) He opens himself to the African gaze.
(d) He learns to fear becoming like native Africans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison comments that race was once used to exclude Blacks, but now that they want their race represented, they are told it does not exist. What function does this detail perform?

3. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison compares the old woman in the story to what?

4. "The War on Error" is a speech given to what group?

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

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