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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Interlude--Black Matter(s), including the essays “Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.” through “Black Matter(s)”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?
(a) History only shows us one side of these leaders.
(b) Great leaders are "ahead of their time."
(c) Slavery was a violent and degrading institution.
(d) Great leaders are born, not made.

2. In "The Future of Time," Morrison points to what two forces as responsible for our modern relationship to the future?
(a) Secularism and the Cold War.
(b) Science and technology.
(c) Religion and literature.
(d) Women's Liberation and the Civil Rights Movement.

3. In "Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.," what does Morrison say is MLK's legacy?
(a) He provided the motivation for both Black and white Americans to tear down racial barriers.
(b) He inspired young people to become civil rights leaders.
(c) He taught the world that religious faith must translate into social action.
(d) He made it a compelling and ordinary act to take personal responsibility for preventing social harm.

4. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?
(a) The exhibit was too ambitious and tried to incorporate too many different kinds of art.
(b) It contained racist materials and did not include much art by African American artists.
(c) Critics did not understand the cultural aesthetics the exhibit represented.
(d) New York was not ready for Black art in 1969, and attendance was very low.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "The War on Error" is a speech given to what group?

2. Morrison compares the Africa of the Western imagination to what legendary monster?

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?

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

5. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that we live in the age of what?

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