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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “The Trouble with Paradise” through “Faulkner and Woman”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," Morrison posits that the "Lone" Ranger is "lone" because of what?
(a) His gender.
(b) The presence of Tonto.
(c) His race.
(d) Hiding his face behind a mask.

2. In "Tribute to Romare Bearden," Morrison says that there was once a false division of art into what two categories?
(a) Universal and transcendent.
(b) Political and beautiful.
(c) Authentic and corrective.
(d) Representative and uplifting.

3. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison speculates that slaves offered white Americans a sense of what?
(a) Power and authority they had been denied in Europe.
(b) Being monitored by their social inferiors.
(c) Permissiveness and freedom lacking in the Europe of that time.
(d) Religious duty to the oppressed.

4. "The Trouble with Paradise" is mostly about what?
(a) The difference between older and more modern ideas of paradise.
(b) The language needed to describe paradise.
(c) Characterization difficulties Morrison had while writing Paradise.
(d) The plot of Morrison's novel Paradise.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Hannah Peace?

4. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison proposes to show how memoir is similar to and different from what?

5. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?

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