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

2. In "The Future of Time," what does Morrison say it seems like "the future" means to people today?
(a) Despair.
(b) Infinity.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) 20-40 years from now.

3. In "Race Matters," Morrison compares race to what?
(a) A jailer.
(b) A set of clothing.
(c) A ladder.
(d) A map.

4. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?
(a) Television.
(b) A mistress.
(c) An art critic.
(d) Slavery.

5. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison blames what group for the oppression of women?
(a) Writers.
(b) Government.
(c) The Christian church.
(d) Other women.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," Gothic Romance is evidence of what feeling in the new nation?

2. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?

3. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?

4. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?

5. 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?

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