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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 "Black Matter(s)," Morrison retells the story of William Dunbar as an example of what?
(a) A slave who struggled to make his voice heard.
(b) A victim of state violence.
(c) A prototypical American white male.
(d) A critic who understands the significance of Black art.

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?
(a) She will be charged tuition for the time she spent on campus giving the speech.
(b) She will be accused of plagiarizing the writer Toni Morrison.
(c) She will have to defend her speech before an academic committee.
(d) The university will decide to take her degree away.

3. In "Race Matters," what word does Morrison call an unsatisfying and shallow ending for Beloved?
(a) Remember.
(b) House.
(c) Kiss.
(d) Audacity.

4. The art show Morrison discusses in "Harlem on My Mind" had a catalog with a forward written by whom?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) The city parks commissioner.
(c) Romare Bearden.
(d) A high-school student.

5. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison speculates that slaves offered white Americans a sense of what?
(a) Religious duty to the oppressed.
(b) Being monitored by their social inferiors.
(c) Permissiveness and freedom lacking in the Europe of that time.
(d) Power and authority they had been denied in Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," when Morrison suggests that writing about slavery cuts away at the scar tissue the blackbody uses to hide the slavebody, what technique is she using?

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

3. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?

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

5. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison says that we must use freedom to do what?

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