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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 "The Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?
2. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that a key "absence" in writing about racism is the omission of its impact on whom?
3. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?
4. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?
5. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?
Short Essay Questions
1. In “Harlem on My Mind," what does Morrison point to as the causes of the failure of the New York Metropolitan Museum's 1968 exhibit on Harlem?
2. In “Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.," what does Morrison say that she wonders about MLK, and why?
3. In “Women, Race, and Memory” how does Morrison describe the way "non-aligned" women are viewed by feminists and anti-feminists, and how do non-aligned women view them?
4. In her speech “Cinderella’s Stepsisters," what is the purpose of the allusion to Cinderella?
5. In “The Foreigner’s Home,” what point is Morrison making with her discussion of The Radiance of the King?
6. In “Black Matter(s)," what point is Morrison illustrating with the excerpt she includes from Bailyn's Voyagers of the West?
7. In “The Individual Artist," what does Morrison say is the unique value of the National Endowment for the Arts?
8. What current problems with arts funding does Morrison identify in “Arts Advocacy”?
9. In “War Against Error," what does Morrison propose as a new "curriculum," and what does she hope it will accomplish?
10. 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?
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 "The Source of Self-Regard," Morrison discusses the image of a bit--a kind of torture device used to silence slaves. Explain how she incorporates this into Beloved--how she conveys the idea to the reader and why she makes the choices she does.
Essay Topic 3
In "The Site of Memory," Morrison describes compromises that authors of slave narratives had to make in order to accomplish their goals. What were these compromises, what were the goals of slave narratives, and how did one make the other necessary?
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