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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 book discusses certain kinds of readings that seem inextricable from certain experiences of writing and knowledge?
(a) Playing in the Dark.
(b) The Words to Say It.
(c) Preludes IV.
(d) Possession.
2. What does Morrison describe Sapphira and the Slave Girl as being an example of?
(a) Urgency in American literature.
(b) Willful critical blindness.
(c) Immediate Africanist presence.
(d) Fulfilling language and lackluster art.
3. Why does Morrison claim to struggle with language that evokes hidden signals?
(a) She is a black writer.
(b) She is a good writer.
(c) She is a bad writer.
(d) She is a female writer.
4. Who does Morrison attribute as being the most sensitive type of artist?
(a) Painter.
(b) Illustrator.
(c) Writer.
(d) Reader.
5. What does Morrison's work require her to consider?
(a) How much further she can extend her study of American literature.
(b) How free she can be.
(c) How gender neutral she can be.
(d) How racialized she can be.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following does Morrison say studies of racism focus on?
2. According to Morrison, what does Willa Cather not allow readers to ignore?
3. In what role does Morrison see the subject of a dream?
4. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?
5. What hidden signals does Morrison look for?
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