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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 "Race Matters," Morrison says that when she was younger she found something in writing that she could not find in life itself--what was it?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Sovereignty.
(c) Love.
(d) Justice.

2. In "The Trouble with Paradise," Morrison claims that in the modern world, what has become "trivial"?
(a) Religion.
(b) Justice.
(c) Morailty.
(d) Paradise.

3. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison blames what group for the oppression of women?
(a) Other women.
(b) Writers.
(c) Government.
(d) The Christian church.

4. In "On Beloved," Morrison says that what field of study drew her to the subject matter of Beloved?
(a) Science.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) History.
(d) Literature.

5. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?
(a) Religious beliefs that differed from community norms.
(b) Movements against genocide and ethnic cleansing.
(c) The acceptance of Africans into European society.
(d) Philosophical thinking that questioned the power of the state.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Introduction to Peter Sellars," Morrison says that Sellars wanted what kind of introduction?

2. In "Academic Whispers," Morrison says that interview requests used to make her feel like she was being used as what?

3. Who is Hannah Peace?

4. To whom does Morrison address her remarks about the dead of September 11, 2001?

5. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?

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