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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. What does Morrison praise the National Endowment for the Arts for in "The Individual Artist"?
(a) Avoiding controversy.
(b) Taking risks on individual artists.
(c) Funding art that everyone agrees is worthwhile.
(d) Encouraging patriotism in the arts.

2. Who is Hannah Peace?
(a) The inspiration for Sula.
(b) A Black writer that Morrison admires.
(c) A character in Beloved.
(d) A literary scholar.

3. 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) Love.
(c) Justice.
(d) Sovereignty.

4. John Gardner's novel Grendel uses the original story as a source for what?
(a) A feminist interpretation of Grendel's mother.
(b) A retelling from Grendel's point of view.
(c) A meditation on the nature of heroism.
(d) A psychological study of motherhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that tow of the thematic concerns of her work are race and what?

2. Morrison begins "Moral Inhabitants" with a list of what Colonial import and export items?

3. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?

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

5. In "Race Matters," Morrison creates a metaphorical comparison between "race-specific, race-free" language and what?

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