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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. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," Gothic Romance is evidence of what feeling in the new nation?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Power.
(d) Anxiety.

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

3. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?
(a) Nonaligned humanists.
(b) Radical socialists.
(c) Libertarians.
(d) Integrationists.

4. In "The Trouble with Paradise," Morrison claims that in the modern world, what has become "trivial"?
(a) Justice.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Morailty.
(d) Religion.

5. In "Introduction to Peter Sellars," Morrison praises his work for being what?
(a) Both accessible and challenging.
(b) Aware of the boundaries between Self and Other.
(c) Critical of racial hierarchies.
(d) Both feminist and scholarly.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "God's Language," Morrison uses the word "ruminating" to describe what?

2. In "God's Language," what does Morrison say gets more attention than paradise?

3. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison credits what group with beginning to open up the canon?

4. In "Hard, True, and Lasting," Morrison says that she can tolerate being alienated from the dominant culture because she knows what?

5. In "Grendel and His Mother," what claim does Morrison make for Beowulf?

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