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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Interlude--Black Matter(s), including the essays “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” through “Hard, True, and Lasting”.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?
(a) A slave.
(b) An addict.
(c) A victim.
(d) A monster.
2. In "Academic Whispers," who does Morrison say should be asked to speak about racism?
(a) Historians.
(b) Writers.
(c) Racists.
(d) Victims of racism.
3. In "The Future of Time," Morrison points to what two forces as responsible for our modern relationship to the future?
(a) Science and technology.
(b) Secularism and the Cold War.
(c) Religion and literature.
(d) Women's Liberation and the Civil Rights Movement.
4. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?
(a) Movements against genocide and ethnic cleansing.
(b) Religious beliefs that differed from community norms.
(c) Philosophical thinking that questioned the power of the state.
(d) The acceptance of Africans into European society.
5. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?
(a) Disrupting the status quo with her provocative work.
(b) Taking on the perspective of the "other."
(c) Placing art in public workplaces.
(d) Creating great religious art.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?
2. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?
3. In "Black Matter(s)," what aspect of American slavery does Morrison claim makes its impact so long-lasting in American culture?
4. In "Hard, True, and Lasting," Morrison says that what feeling is the first one writers feel when they begin to write?
5. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison introduces Rafferty's criticism of Milan Kundera's Eurocentrism because she says that it can do what?
This section contains 384 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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