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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. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?
(a) Seize power from the church.
(b) Prevent strangers from entering their lands.
(c) Accumulate as much land as possible.
(d) Share their wealth.

2. In "Introduction to Peter Sellars," Morrison praises his work for being what?
(a) Both feminist and scholarly.
(b) Aware of the boundaries between Self and Other.
(c) Critical of racial hierarchies.
(d) Both accessible and challenging.

3. In "The Site of Memory," what tactic does Morrison point out in slave narratives?
(a) Creating audience sympathy through obvious appeals to pathos.
(b) Appealing to audience by assuming the reader's nobility and morality.
(c) Challenging the audience with frequent, pointed rhetorical questions.
(d) Engaging the audience through vivid description of slavery's brutality.

4. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?
(a) Writing about it can be cruel to modern African Americans.
(b) Slavery's consequences have been the same throughout history.
(c) Most modern Americans do not have any historic ties to slavery.
(d) It is an ancient practice that is not always tied to racism.

5. In "The Trouble with Paradise," what does Morrison call "a realm that is no realm at all"?
(a) Race.
(b) Gender.
(c) Slavery.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?

2. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison blames what group for the oppression of women?

3. In "Grendel and His Mother," Morrison notes that Beowulf is a part of Western literature's characterization of evil as what?

4. In "Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.," what does Morrison say is MLK's legacy?

5. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that she is willing to talk about typical graduation topics like the future, responsibility, and goodness, but not what?

(see the answer key)

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