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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. Who does Sapphira plot to rape her slave?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her nephew.

2. Which of the following does Morrison acknowledge?
(a) That each writer tries to avoid writing about race.
(b) That each reader is looking for something different.
(c) That each author is biased.
(d) That each reader reads differently.

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

4. What does Morrison's work require her to consider?
(a) How gender neutral she can be.
(b) How much further she can extend her study of American literature.
(c) How free she can be.
(d) How racialized she can be.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What begins to tear at Cardinal's nerves?

2. Where does Morrison claim to apply the knowledge in Playing in the Dark?

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

4. What is Morrison interested in determining about domination?

5. Which of the following words refers to denotative and connotative blackness that the African people have come to signify?

(see the answer key)

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