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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 "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Television.
(c) A mistress.
(d) An art critic.

2. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what does Morrison blame for diminishing our desire to care for others in modern times?
(a) Widespread poverty in our own country.
(b) The rise of fascism in Western democracies.
(c) The rise of non-governmental organizations.
(d) Our fear of the movement of people across borders.

3. In "Grendel and His Mother," what claim does Morrison make for Beowulf?
(a) It is an artifact of an irrelevant time.
(b) It functions as a mirror for our own time.
(c) It exposes how values have shifted in Western culture.
(d) It equals our modern knowledge of reality.

4. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," Gothic Romance is evidence of what feeling in the new nation?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Power.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Sorrow.

5. Morrison's discussion of Huckleberry Finn in "Black Matter(s)" is intended as an illustration of what?
(a) Historical accuracy in fiction.
(b) Gothic Romanticism.
(c) American Africanism.
(d) The shadow of Puritanism in fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Site of Memory," Morrison proposes to show how memoir is similar to and different from what?

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

3. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," when Morrison suggests that writing about slavery cuts away at the scar tissue the blackbody uses to hide the slavebody, what technique is she using?

4. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison retells the story of William Dunbar as an example of what?

5. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that she is willing to talk about typical graduation topics like the future, responsibility, and goodness, but not what?

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