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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Black Matters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Morrison teach?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Brown.
(d) UCLA.

2. What does Morrison not mention the world as being?
(a) Racialized.
(b) Genderized.
(c) Sexualized.
(d) Liberalized.

3. What does Morrison claim that critics do not say about Sapphira and the Slave Girl?
(a) Why it is a failure.
(b) Why it was written.
(c) Why people read it.
(d) Why it is successful.

4. What is "the Thing"?
(a) Morrison's distaste for Africanist literature.
(b) Classic literature.
(c) Louis Armstrong concert.
(d) Cardinal's illness.

5. How many pages into The Words to Say It does "the thing" happen?
(a) 80.
(b) 40.
(c) 120.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the third author Morrison mentions as including black references in his or her work?

2. Who was criticized by a scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?

3. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?

4. What does Morrison claim has impoverished literature?

5. What does Morrison say produces work?

(see the answer key)

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