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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Arts Advocacy," Morrison recounts discovering that a highly regarded artist vetoed funding for another artist for what reason?

2. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?

3. According to Morrison, identifying the race of a subject can have what unintended consequence?

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

5. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison relates an anecdote about which historical figure?

Short Essay Questions

1. In “Black Matter(s)," in what ways does Morrison say Africanism has become a "disabling virus"?

2. In “Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.," what does Morrison say that she wonders about MLK, and why?

3. In “Race Matters," what story does Morrison tell about the ending of Beloved, and why does she tell this story?

4. What current problems with arts funding does Morrison identify in “Arts Advocacy”?

5. In “War Against Error," what does Morrison propose as a new "curriculum," and what does she hope it will accomplish?

6. According to Morrison's “Women, Race, and Memory," what are the assumptions behind infighting among women?

7. in “The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what stages does Morrison trace the evolution of Western culture's attitude toward the accumulation of money?

8. In “The Foreigner’s Home,” what point is Morrison making with her discussion of The Radiance of the King?

9. In “The Individual Artist," what is the paradox that Morrison says artists face?

10. In “Black Matter(s)," what point is Morrison illustrating with the excerpt she includes from Bailyn's Voyagers of the West?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In her eulogy for James Baldwin, Morrison enumerates three gifts that Baldwin gave her and three ways in which Baldwin is an inspiration to her. What are these gifts and sources of inspiration, and how does Morrison try to make use of them?

Essay Topic 2

In “Race Matters,” Morrison tries to illustrate her main point with brief analyses of her own works. Summarize what she has to say about her own works and then evaluate how successful she is in accomplishing her goal in offering these analyses.

Essay Topic 3

In “Home” and “Wartalk,” Morrison explores how social change and historical events can shape language. Choose a word that she analyzes in “Home” and a word that she analyzes in “Wartalk.” Explain what Morrison would say the two words have in common and what she would say is different between them.

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