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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “James Baldwin Eulogy” through “The Writer Before the Page”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," what is a key factor in national identity?
(a) Religion.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Politics.
(d) Literature.

2. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what does Morrison blame for diminishing our desire to care for others in modern times?
(a) The rise of non-governmental organizations.
(b) Widespread poverty in our own country.
(c) The rise of fascism in Western democracies.
(d) Our fear of the movement of people across borders.

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

4. In "Academic Whispers," Morrison says that interview requests used to make her feel like she was being used as what?
(a) A "specimen."
(b) A "humanistic disciple."
(c) "Literary enforcement."
(d) "Journalistic glue."

5. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?
(a) Deliberate imagining that creates intimacy with the Other.
(b) Wasted time engaged in wishful thinking.
(c) An impractical luxury we cannot afford in modern times.
(d) A meditative state that improves the creative capacity of the Self.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison speculates about how much more knowledge we would have if scholarship was not held back by what?

2. In "Hard, True, and Lasting," Morrison says that she identifies the things she loves and values by doing what?

3. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?

4. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," what do the children ask the old woman about?

5. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison says that arguments against the inclusion of African American writings in the canon follow a sequence that ends with what belief?

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