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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 "A Race in Mind," Morrison asks for more thoughtful work from what group?
(a) The press.
(b) Authors.
(c) Government.
(d) Art critics.

2. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?
(a) Excluded Black artists from a major retrospective exhibition.
(b) Mounted an exhibition more concerned with Black politics than art.
(c) Focused on the question of what makes Black art Black.
(d) Devoted an entire exhibition to Romare Bearden.

3. In "Chinua Achebe," Morrison says that she learned what from Achebe?
(a) How to properly structure a narrative.
(b) How to focus her writing on her own truth instead of on nonwhite audiences' expectations.
(c) The meaning of aspects of African culture that had frustrated and puzzled her.
(d) The importance of the Africanistic presence in American literature.

4. In "Literature and Public Life," what does Morrison say shapes our understanding of community?
(a) Literature from the canon.
(b) Literature from outside the canon.
(c) The media, especially television.
(d) Government propaganda.

5. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison says that we must use freedom to do what?
(a) Overthrow corrupt institutions.
(b) Create art.
(c) Free others.
(d) Educate ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?

2. According to Morrison, how does fascism arise?

3. In "The Trouble with Paradise," Morrison says that writers must hold "an unblinking gaze into the realm of" what?

4. In "Tribute to Romare Bearden," Morrison notes what about African American visual art?

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

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