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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “James Baldwin Eulogy” through “The Writer Before the Page”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Race Matters," what word does Morrison call an unsatisfying and shallow ending for Beloved?
(a) House.
(b) Audacity.
(c) Kiss.
(d) Remember.

2. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that she refuses to write in what voice?
(a) The master's.
(b) A masculine one.
(c) The slave's.
(d) A race-specific one.

3. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that immigration from the Old World to the New World is usually seen as what?
(a) A desire to unite with the long history of indigenous peoples.
(b) A religious pilgimage.
(c) A quest to spread European culture to the New World.
(d) A flight from oppression to freedom.

4. In her "James Baldwin Eulogy," Morrison makes an allusion to what Biblical story?
(a) The destruction of Solomon's temple.
(b) David and Goliath.
(c) The visit of the Three Wise Men to the Christ child.
(d) Leviathan.

5. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that a key "absence" in writing about racism is the omission of its impact on whom?
(a) Perpetrators.
(b) Future generations.
(c) Non-Black minorities.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Black Matter(s)," what does Morrison say she means by "American Africanism"?

2. In "Grendel and His Mother," Morrison notes that Beowulf is a part of Western literature's characterization of evil as what?

3. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?

4. In "God's Language," Morrison uses the word "ruminating" to describe what?

5. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison speculates that slaves offered white Americans a sense of what?

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