The Source of Self-Regard Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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The Source of Self-Regard Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Interlude--Black Matter(s), including the essays “Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.” through “Black Matter(s)”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," what do the children ask the old woman about?
(a) Love.
(b) A bird.
(c) Death.
(d) A baby.

2. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?
(a) The first time she was called a racial epithet.
(b) Her own immigration to America from Ghana.
(c) When the church collection plate was passed to raise money for Africa.
(d) When she struggled to understand a movie set in Asia.

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 quest to spread European culture to the New World.
(c) A religious pilgimage.
(d) A flight from oppression to freedom.

4. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," What does Morrison refer to with the phrase "tongue-suicide"?
(a) A refusal to speak for what is right.
(b) The death of language.
(c) Lying.
(d) The willingness to ban and destroy books.

5. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison compares the old woman in the story to what?
(a) A writer.
(b) God.
(c) A prophet.
(d) A reader.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?

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

4. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," what does Morrison call the "ghost in the machine"?

5. In "Moral Inhabitants," Morrison says that the ability to make fine distinctions shows what?

(see the answer key)

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