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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Part II--God’s Language, including the essays “James Baldwin Eulogy” through “The Writer Before the Page”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Writer Before the Page," Morrison says that she wants to do what with her writing?
(a) Engage the reader in a participatory relationship.
(b) Challenge critics to accept a blurring between memoir and fiction.
(c) Question the foundations of the Western canon.
(d) Tell a fictionalized account of her own life story.

2. In "The Site of Memory," what tactic does Morrison point out in slave narratives?
(a) Engaging the audience through vivid description of slavery's brutality.
(b) Challenging the audience with frequent, pointed rhetorical questions.
(c) Creating audience sympathy through obvious appeals to pathos.
(d) Appealing to audience by assuming the reader's nobility and morality.

3. Store displays arranged to look like the interiors of houses and the interiors of houses arranged to look like store displays is an example Morrison gives of which aspect of globalism?
(a) Its division of people into "center" and "margin."
(b) Corporate control of formerly public spaces.
(c) The boundless creation of wealth.
(d) The erasure of the line between public and private.

4. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?
(a) Nonaligned humanists.
(b) Radical socialists.
(c) Integrationists.
(d) Libertarians.

5. In "Arts Advocacy," Morrison recounts discovering that a highly regarded artist vetoed funding for another artist for what reason?
(a) He was jealous of the other artist's possible success.
(b) He found the other artist's work too controversial.
(c) He thought that having a secure income would ruin the other artist's work.
(d) He knew that the other artist's work would sell better if the public saw him "struggling."

Short Answer Questions

1. In "God's Language," what does Morrison say seems more true the longer she writes?

2. Mass migration, according to Morrison, causes what to happen?

3. In "Race Matters," what word does Morrison call an unsatisfying and shallow ending for Beloved?

4. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," Morrison calls the "merging of forms" one of the key aspects of what literary movement?

5. In "Academic Whispers," Morrison compares African American literature to what?

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