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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “The Trouble with Paradise” through “Faulkner and Woman”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "God's Language," what does Morrison say seems more true the longer she writes?
(a) The centrality of African American subjects.
(b) That it will be possible to merge the scientific and the artistic.
(c) That she deserves the praise she got earlier in her career.
(d) The impossibility of writing.

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

3. In "Race Matters," Morrison compares race to what?
(a) A jailer.
(b) A map.
(c) A set of clothing.
(d) A ladder.

4. In "The Trouble with Paradise," what does Morrison call "a realm that is no realm at all"?
(a) History.
(b) Race.
(c) Gender.
(d) Slavery.

5. In "The Writer Before the Page," Morrison explains what about the structure of her novels?
(a) She finds chapter and part designations unhelpful.
(b) She always begins with a careful outline.
(c) She dislikes nonlinear narrative.
(d) She is frustrated when the parts feel fragmentary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?

2. According to Morrison, how does fascism arise?

3. Why is "panoply" a clever piece of diction as used in "Unspeakable Things Unspoken"?

4. In "Faulkner and Women," whom does Morrison say she imagines when as a reader when she is writing?

5. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?

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