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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. In the attack on Algeria, what does Cardinal see?
(a) White slaughter of a black mother.
(b) White slaughter of an Indian mother.
(c) Vengeful slaughter of an innocent.
(d) White slaughter of a white mother.

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

3. What does Morrison see that the subject of the dream is?
(a) The dream itself.
(b) The dreamer.
(c) The symbolism of the dream.
(d) The action in the dream.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?

2. What does Morrison claim has impoverished literature?

3. Where does Morrison teach?

4. Where were the lectures that Playing in the Dark is based on given?

5. According to Cardinal, what does America plan to slaughter?

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