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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. Who is Hannah Peace?
(a) A literary scholar.
(b) The inspiration for Sula.
(c) A Black writer that Morrison admires.
(d) A character in Beloved.

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

3. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?
(a) Nonaligned humanists.
(b) Integrationists.
(c) Radical socialists.
(d) Libertarians.

4. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?
(a) Racism.
(b) The centering of African American culture.
(c) Class warfare.
(d) The debasement of language.

5. In "The Trouble with Paradise," Morrison claims that in the modern world, what has become "trivial"?
(a) Morailty.
(b) Religion.
(c) Paradise.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "Race Matters," Morrison creates a metaphorical comparison between "race-specific, race-free" language and what?

3. The art show Morrison discusses in "Harlem on My Mind" had a catalog with a forward written by whom?

4. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?

5. In "The Trouble with Paradise," Morrison says she knows how whiteness "matures and ascends the throne of universalism." What is the best descriptor of this phrase?

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