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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. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," the slave population became the focus of what fundamental feeling of the colonists?
(a) The "Pilgrim's awe and piety."
(b) The "immigrant's hope."
(c) The "Romantic yearning for freedom."
(d) The "outcast's terror."

2. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison says that slave narratives had two purposes: one was to record the life of an individual human being, and the other was what?
(a) To condemn their former masters.
(b) To contribute to the historical record.
(c) To advance the cause of abolition.
(d) To rebut narratives by plantation owners.

3. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?
(a) Radical socialists.
(b) Libertarians.
(c) Nonaligned humanists.
(d) Integrationists.

4. 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.

5. In "Tribute to Romare Bearden," Morrison says that early scholarship on creating a canon of Black art tended to focus on what?
(a) The Western cultural aesthetic.
(b) Cross-genre analysis.
(c) Assimilation.
(d) Nation building.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?

2. In "Race Matters," what word does Morrison call an unsatisfying and shallow ending for Beloved?

3. In "God's Language," what does Morrison say gets more attention than paradise?

4. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison remarks upon what tone common in slave narratives?

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

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