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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 are references to Sapphira and the Slave Girl noted as being?
(a) Demeaning.
(b) Lackluster.
(c) Spiteful.
(d) Apologetic.

2. Who is the author of What Maisie Knew?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Willa Cather.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

3. Which of the following is true about Africanism around the world?
(a) Europe is the only first-world region that does not acknowledge Africanism.
(b) African literature is the only type of literature that has not constructed Africanism.
(c) The US is not unique in its construction of Africanism.
(d) American literature is the only type of literature that features Africanism.

4. What does Morrison say produces work?
(a) Relaxation.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Perseverance.
(d) Stress.

5. What did Cardinal tell her doctor not to keep in his office?
(a) A framed photo of Louis Armstrong.
(b) A water dish for his cat.
(c) A gargoyle.
(d) A clock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Morrison thank for helping her with the book?

2. In Morrison's point of view, what does the fabrication of an Africanist presence a reflexive mediation on?

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

4. What notion must a writer be aware of when reading and writing?

5. Morrison claims that she does not want to replace what with Afrocentric domination?

(see the answer key)

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