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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. 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 it is successful.
(d) Why people read it.

2. What persuaded Morrison to read The Words to Say It?
(a) The title.
(b) A synopsis.
(c) The author.
(d) The cover.

3. In Morrison's point of view, what does the fabrication of an Africanist presence a reflexive mediation on?
(a) The self.
(b) Society.
(c) Writers.
(d) Readers.

4. How many years back did the presence of African-Americans in the US begin?
(a) 300.
(b) 600.
(c) 500.
(d) 400.

5. According to Morrison, what does Willa Cather not allow readers to ignore?
(a) Setting.
(b) Race.
(c) Class.
(d) Time period.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison believe we need to learn about to discover the nature and cause of literary whiteness?

2. Morrison says that what item reveals itself differently to each writer?

3. Who gave the lectures that Morrison bases Playing in the Dark on?

4. Who does Sapphira plot to rape her slave?

5. Which of the following elements of racism does Morrison say studies of racism focus on?

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