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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 "Race Matters," Morrison says that when she was younger she found something in writing that she could not find in life itself--what was it?
(a) Justice.
(b) Love.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Sovereignty.

2. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," the slave population became the focus of what fundamental feeling of the colonists?
(a) The "immigrant's hope."
(b) The "Pilgrim's awe and piety."
(c) The "Romantic yearning for freedom."
(d) The "outcast's terror."

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) Women's Liberation and the Civil Rights Movement.
(c) Secularism and the Cold War.
(d) Religion and literature.

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?
(a) Deliberate imagining that creates intimacy with the Other.
(b) A meditative state that improves the creative capacity of the Self.
(c) Wasted time engaged in wishful thinking.
(d) An impractical luxury we cannot afford in modern times.

5. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison compares the restriction of the canon by traditional Western standards to what?
(a) A lobotomy.
(b) A glass house.
(c) A jail cell.
(d) A corset.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?

2. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?

3. What is it that Morrison says distinguishes globalism from previous movements?

4. 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?

5. What does Morrison say is at its greatest height since the time of the slave trade?

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