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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 her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that she is willing to talk about typical graduation topics like the future, responsibility, and goodness, but not what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Humility.
(c) Success.
(d) Ambition.

2. Morrison's novel "Paradise" is set where?
(a) In an all-Black town.
(b) In an unnamed kingdom.
(c) In Jerusalem.
(d) In New York during the Jazz Age.

3. In "Academic Whispers," who does Morrison say should be asked to speak about racism?
(a) Writers.
(b) Racists.
(c) Victims of racism.
(d) Historians.

4. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that immigration from the Old World to the New World is usually seen as what?
(a) A religious pilgimage.
(b) A desire to unite with the long history of indigenous peoples.
(c) A quest to spread European culture to the New World.
(d) A flight from oppression to freedom.

5. In "The Trouble with Paradise," Morrison says that writers must hold "an unblinking gaze into the realm of" what?
(a) Inequality.
(b) Death.
(c) Difference.
(d) Sorrow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison opens by joking that because she was once a student at the place she is now speaking, what might happen after her speech?

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

4. In "Tribute to Romare Bearden," Morrison says that early scholarship on creating a canon of Black art tended to focus on what?

5. In "On Beloved," Morrison says that one thing that frustrates her is the absence of Black girls where?

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