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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 "The Writer Before the Page," what does Morrison say she avoids in her writing?
(a) Figurative language.
(b) Musical language.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Literary allusions.

2. Morrison begins "Moral Inhabitants" with a list of what Colonial import and export items?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Indentured servants.
(c) Bibles and other religious tracts.
(d) Guns.

3. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that a key "absence" in writing about racism is the omission of its impact on whom?
(a) Perpetrators.
(b) Women.
(c) Future generations.
(d) Non-Black minorities.

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

5. What is it that Morrison says distinguishes globalism from previous movements?
(a) Changes in political alliances.
(b) The way it distributes wealth.
(c) Its documentation in literature.
(d) Its speed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Academic Whispers," who does Morrison say should be asked to speak about racism?

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

3. In "The Individual Artist," what does Morrison find interesting about the feud between literary critics from different schools of criticism?

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

5. In "The Trouble with Paradise," Morrison claims that in the modern world, what has become "trivial"?

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