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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 "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," when Morrison suggests that writing about slavery cuts away at the scar tissue the blackbody uses to hide the slavebody, what technique is she using?
(a) Ethos.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Logos.
(d) Figurative language.

2. In "The Trouble with Paradise," what does Morrison call "a realm that is no realm at all"?
(a) History.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Gender.
(d) Race.

3. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that tow of the thematic concerns of her work are race and what?
(a) Home.
(b) History.
(c) Gender.
(d) Liberty.

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

5. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?
(a) A conflict that hurts both sides.
(b) A philosophical difference that divides a group.
(c) Hostility between the classes.
(d) Conflict between women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was James Baldwin?

2. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," the slave population became the focus of what fundamental feeling of the colonists?

3. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison remarks on the absence of what in slave narratives?

4. In "Tribute to Romare Bearden," Morrison says that there was once a false division of art into what two categories?

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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