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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 "The Trouble with Paradise," Morrison says that writers must hold "an unblinking gaze into the realm of" what?
(a) Inequality.
(b) Death.
(c) Difference.
(d) Sorrow.

2. In "Hard, True, and Lasting," Morrison says that what feeling is the first one writers feel when they begin to write?
(a) Separateness.
(b) Love.
(c) Independence.
(d) Gratitude.

3. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison proposes to show how memoir is similar to and different from what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) History.
(c) Literary criticism.
(d) Fiction.

4. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?
(a) Prevent strangers from entering their lands.
(b) Share their wealth.
(c) Seize power from the church.
(d) Accumulate as much land as possible.

5. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison remarks upon what tone common in slave narratives?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Fury.
(d) Despair.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?

2. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," what element does Morrison say is an aspect of the European American response to chaos lacking in the indigenous response?

3. In "Tribute to Romare Bearden," Morrison says that early scholarship on creating a canon of Black art tended to focus on what?

4. What does Morrison say is a key reason for Western projections onto Africa?

5. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison tells the anecdote about Antigone in Haiti to illustrate what point?

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