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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 tow of the thematic concerns of her work are race and what?
(a) Home.
(b) Liberty.
(c) History.
(d) Gender.

2. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," what element does Morrison say is an aspect of the European American response to chaos lacking in the indigenous response?
(a) Disrespect.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Wonder.

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

4. In "Hard, True, and Lasting," Morrison says that what feeling is the first one writers feel when they begin to write?
(a) Separateness.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Love.
(d) Independence.

5. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison introduces Rogin's commentary on Moby Dick for what purpose?
(a) As an example of how a canonical piece can be enriched by reading for the Black presence.
(b) To highlight the importance of Black scholarship.
(c) So that she can rebut Rogin's reading of Moby Dick.
(d) As part of her explication of the timeline of Western literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison speculates about how much more knowledge we would have if scholarship was not held back by what?

2. In "Chinua Achebe," Morrison says that she learned what from Achebe?

3. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?

4. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison brings up Bernal's two models of Greek history in order to illustrate what point?

5. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison tells the anecdote about Antigone in Haiti to illustrate what point?

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