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

2. In "Black Matter(s)," what does Morrison say she means by "American Africanism"?
(a) A white-American construct that defines "American" against a fabrication of Blackness.
(b) A claim for expansion of the literary canon to incorporate Black writers.
(c) The historic systemic oppression of Black Americans.
(d) A Black literary movement that centers Africanness.

3. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?
(a) New York was not ready for Black art in 1969, and attendance was very low.
(b) Critics did not understand the cultural aesthetics the exhibit represented.
(c) The exhibit was too ambitious and tried to incorporate too many different kinds of art.
(d) It contained racist materials and did not include much art by African American artists.

4. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison introduces Rafferty's criticism of Milan Kundera's Eurocentrism because she says that it can do what?
(a) Highlight the need for a new appraisal of European contributions to the canon.
(b) Serve as a model for African American writers seeking inclusion in the canon.
(c) Demonstrate why the American canon is an illusion.
(d) Motivate a re-imagining of the role of scholarship in shaping the canon.

5. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Marketing.
(c) Foreignness.
(d) Development.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that tow of the thematic concerns of her work are race and what?

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

3. Based on your reading of "Arts Advocacy," which statement would Morrison agree with?

4. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?

5. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?

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