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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. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Marketing.
(c) Development.
(d) Foreignness.

2. In "Race Matters," what word does Morrison call an unsatisfying and shallow ending for Beloved?
(a) Kiss.
(b) Audacity.
(c) Remember.
(d) House.

3. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison blames what group for the oppression of women?
(a) The Christian church.
(b) Other women.
(c) Writers.
(d) Government.

4. In "Literature and Public Life," what does Morrison say shapes our understanding of community?
(a) Government propaganda.
(b) Literature from outside the canon.
(c) Literature from the canon.
(d) The media, especially television.

5. According to "Harlem on My Mind," the term "postblack" refers to whom?
(a) Black artists who want their art to be evaluated by aesthetic standards only--not classified according to their race.
(b) Black artists who distance themselves from Blackness by identifying with white culture.
(c) Critics who refuse to evaluate Black art according to the aesthetics of the Black community.
(d) Critics who make race the key factor in their analysis of works of art.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?

2. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison's central claim is that women should not do what?

3. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," Gothic Romance is evidence of what feeling in the new nation?

4. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?

5. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?

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