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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “The Source of Self-Regard” through “Invisible Ink: Reading the Writing and Writing the Reading”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Memory, Creation, and Fiction," Morrison says what of her process of writing Tar Baby?
(a) She deliberately excluded any details that could be found in Western retellings of the story.
(b) She chose the most memorable details from her memory of being told the story.
(c) She edited out the more disturbing details of the original story.
(d) She researched several versions of the folktale.

2. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," what is a key factor in national identity?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Literature.

3. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," what do the children ask the old woman about?
(a) A bird.
(b) Love.
(c) A baby.
(d) Death.

4. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that immigration from the Old World to the New World is usually seen as what?
(a) A desire to unite with the long history of indigenous peoples.
(b) A flight from oppression to freedom.
(c) A quest to spread European culture to the New World.
(d) A religious pilgimage.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?

3. 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?

4. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison notes that she almost titled the essay something else--what?

5. In "The In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison speculates about how much more knowledge we would have if scholarship was not held back by what?

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