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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," why does Morrison say that her work can properly be considered "Black" writing?
(a) Because her characters are Black.
(b) Because scholars classify it as such.
(c) Because she is Black.
(d) Because she works from within established traditions of Black art and culture.

2. In "The Future of Time," Morrison points to what two forces as responsible for our modern relationship to the future?
(a) Secularism and the Cold War.
(b) Women's Liberation and the Civil Rights Movement.
(c) Science and technology.
(d) Religion and literature.

3. In "The Future of Time," what does Morrison say it seems like "the future" means to people today?
(a) Infinity.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) 20-40 years from now.
(d) Despair.

4. Morrison compares the Africa of the Western imagination to what legendary monster?
(a) The Sphinx.
(b) Grendel.
(c) Leviathan.
(d) Medusa.

5. In "God's Language," what does Morrison say gets more attention than paradise?
(a) Race.
(b) Hell.
(c) Money.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?

2. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," what element does Morrison say is an aspect of the European American response to chaos lacking in the indigenous response?

3. Based on your reading of "Arts Advocacy," which statement would Morrison agree with?

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?

5. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?

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