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

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

3. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," Gothic Romance is evidence of what feeling in the new nation?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Power.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Anxiety.

4. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," Morrison calls the "merging of forms" one of the key aspects of what literary movement?
(a) Modernism.
(b) The Harlem Renaissance.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Postmodernism.

5. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?
(a) He is now worthy of being a king.
(b) He fully inhabits Western ideals of masculinity.
(c) He learns to fear becoming like native Africans.
(d) He opens himself to the African gaze.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison say is at its greatest height since the time of the slave trade?

2. In "Introduction to Peter Sellars," Morrison praises his work for being what?

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

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

5. In "Academic Whispers," Morrison says that interview requests used to make her feel like she was being used as what?

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