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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “The Trouble with Paradise” through “Faulkner and Woman”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Tribute to Romare Bearden," Morrison says that there was once a false division of art into what two categories?
(a) Representative and uplifting.
(b) Universal and transcendent.
(c) Authentic and corrective.
(d) Political and beautiful.

2. In "The Writer Before the Page," Morrison explains what about the structure of her novels?
(a) She dislikes nonlinear narrative.
(b) She is frustrated when the parts feel fragmentary.
(c) She always begins with a careful outline.
(d) She finds chapter and part designations unhelpful.

3. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?
(a) Development.
(b) Foreignness.
(c) Ideology.
(d) Marketing.

4. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison tells the anecdote about Antigone in Haiti to illustrate what point?
(a) Art has real-world power.
(b) Ancient Greek works are still relevant today.
(c) Dictators try to crush artistic expression.
(d) Acting in a play is therapeutic.

5. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison introduces Rafferty's criticism of Milan Kundera's Eurocentrism because she says that it can do what?
(a) Demonstrate why the American canon is an illusion.
(b) Highlight the need for a new appraisal of European contributions to the canon.
(c) Motivate a re-imagining of the role of scholarship in shaping the canon.
(d) Serve as a model for African American writers seeking inclusion in the canon.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?

3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?

4. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," where does the old woman say the answer to the children's question is?

5. In "On Beloved," Morrison says that what field of study drew her to the subject matter of Beloved?

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