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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 Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?
(a) Television.
(b) A mistress.
(c) Slavery.
(d) An art critic.

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

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

4. Morrison compares the Africa of the Western imagination to what legendary monster?
(a) Medusa.
(b) The Sphinx.
(c) Leviathan.
(d) Grendel.

5. What is it that Morrison says distinguishes globalism from previous movements?
(a) Its speed.
(b) Its documentation in literature.
(c) Changes in political alliances.
(d) The way it distributes wealth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison retells the story of William Dunbar as an example of what?

3. 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?

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

5. In "Black Matter(s)," what does Morrison say she means by "American Africanism"?

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