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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 "Academic Whispers," Morrison says that interview requests used to make her feel like she was being used as what?
(a) A "specimen."
(b) "Journalistic glue."
(c) "Literary enforcement."
(d) A "humanistic disciple."

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) Devoted an entire exhibition to Romare Bearden.
(d) Focused on the question of what makes Black art Black.

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

4. Store displays arranged to look like the interiors of houses and the interiors of houses arranged to look like store displays is an example Morrison gives of which aspect of globalism?
(a) Corporate control of formerly public spaces.
(b) The boundless creation of wealth.
(c) The erasure of the line between public and private.
(d) Its division of people into "center" and "margin."

5. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," Morrison calls the "merging of forms" one of the key aspects of what literary movement?
(a) The Harlem Renaissance.
(b) Postmodernism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Romanticism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?

4. According to Morrison, identifying the race of a subject can have what unintended consequence?

5. In "The Writer Before the Page," Morrison says that she wants to do what with her writing?

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