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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. Morrison's discussion of Huckleberry Finn in "Black Matter(s)" is intended as an illustration of what?
(a) American Africanism.
(b) Gothic Romanticism.
(c) Historical accuracy in fiction.
(d) The shadow of Puritanism in fiction.

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

3. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that we live in the age of what?
(a) Resignation.
(b) Spectacle.
(c) Inquiry.
(d) Conscience.

4. In "God's Language," what does Morrison say seems more true the longer she writes?
(a) The impossibility of writing.
(b) The centrality of African American subjects.
(c) That it will be possible to merge the scientific and the artistic.
(d) That she deserves the praise she got earlier in her career.

5. In "God's Language," Morrison says that she does not keep a writer's notebook because of what?
(a) Her novels serve the same purpose as a writer's notebook.
(b) She is afraid that people would want to read it.
(c) Her process does not work with a writer's notebook.
(d) She thinks writer's notebooks are an excuse to avoid actual writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?

2. In "Hard, True, and Lasting," Morrison says that what feeling is the first one writers feel when they begin to write?

3. What form of literature does Morrison discuss at length in "Black Matter(s)"?

4. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?

5. In "God's Language," Morrison uses the word "ruminating" to describe what?

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