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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 Black writer that Morrison admires.
(b) A literary scholar.
(c) The inspiration for Sula.
(d) A character in Beloved.

2. In "Grendel and His Mother," Morrison notes that Beowulf is a part of Western literature's characterization of evil as what?
(a) A philosophical construct.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Pervasive.
(d) A product of environment.

3. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?
(a) Slavery.
(b) An art critic.
(c) A mistress.
(d) Television.

4. In "Tribute to Romare Bearden," Morrison notes what about African American visual art?
(a) It developed later than other arts, such as literature.
(b) Its relationship to the other arts has received insufficient attention.
(c) It has been criticized more rigorously and unfairly than the other arts.
(d) It is more central to Blackness than other arts.

5. According to "Harlem on My Mind," the term "postblack" refers to whom?
(a) Critics who make race the key factor in their analysis of works of art.
(b) Black artists who distance themselves from Blackness by identifying with white culture.
(c) Critics who refuse to evaluate Black art according to the aesthetics of the Black community.
(d) Black artists who want their art to be evaluated by aesthetic standards only--not classified according to their race.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?

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

4. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," Morrison posits that the "Lone" Ranger is "lone" because of what?

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

(see the answer key)

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