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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 "Faulkner and Women," What reasons does Morrison give for not being able to speak to the conference about Faulkner?
(a) She does not feel like she knows enough about Faulkner.
(b) She has said everything she has to say about Faulkner already, in her Cornell thesis.
(c) Faulkner's relationship to women is too unpleasant to speak about.
(d) She is too busy writing Beloved.

2. In her "James Baldwin Eulogy," Morrison makes an allusion to what Biblical story?
(a) The visit of the Three Wise Men to the Christ child.
(b) The destruction of Solomon's temple.
(c) Leviathan.
(d) David and Goliath.

3. In "Faulkner and Women," what effect does Morrison say Faulkner has had on her writing?
(a) None.
(b) He provided an example of how to manipulate language.
(c) She uses symbolism in a similar way.
(d) Faulkner was the inspiration for Song of Solomon.

4. In "On Beloved," Morrison says that what field of study drew her to the subject matter of Beloved?
(a) Science.
(b) History.
(c) Literature.
(d) Philosophy.

5. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that we can understand something important about literary "whiteness" by studying what?
(a) Black writers.
(b) History.
(c) Changes to the canon over time.
(d) Literary Blackness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Race in Mind," Morrison asks for more thoughtful work from what group?

2. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison says that she sees a reflection of African-American cultural traditions in what form of literature?

3. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?

4. In "Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.," what does Morrison say she wonders about MLK?

5. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," Morrison says that she was told that the two responses to chaos are what?

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