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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 "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison's central claim is that women should not do what?
(a) Undermine feminism by being too nurturing.
(b) Oppress other women.
(c) Risk the gains women have made by trying to move forward too quickly.
(d) Participate in corrupt institutions.

2. Which of the following is a key characteristic of globalism, according to Morrison?
(a) Celebration of diversity.
(b) Unity among workers.
(c) The Americanization of the world.
(d) Creating world peace.

3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?
(a) Creative imagination being limited by our own wealth and power.
(b) The easy manipulation of well-educated people by supposedly uneducated people.
(c) Generosity towards the vulnerable turning to violence as soon as the vulnerable try to advocate for themselves.
(d) The desire of wealthy Americans to spread a culture that other nations cannot afford.

4. In "Black Matter(s)," what does Morrison say she means by "American Africanism"?
(a) A white-American construct that defines "American" against a fabrication of Blackness.
(b) A Black literary movement that centers Africanness.
(c) The historic systemic oppression of Black Americans.
(d) A claim for expansion of the literary canon to incorporate Black writers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison points out that in the original Grimm's version, the stepsisters were what?

3. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?

4. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that immigration from the Old World to the New World is usually seen as what?

5. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?

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