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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. What does Morrison say is at its greatest height since the time of the slave trade?
(a) Globalism.
(b) The opening of boarders.
(c) The mass movement of people.
(d) Legislative attempts to integrate newcomers.

2. In "Chinua Achebe," Morrison says that she learned what from Achebe?
(a) How to properly structure a narrative.
(b) The meaning of aspects of African culture that had frustrated and puzzled her.
(c) The importance of the Africanistic presence in American literature.
(d) How to focus her writing on her own truth instead of on nonwhite audiences' expectations.

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

4. John Gardner's novel Grendel uses the original story as a source for what?
(a) A retelling from Grendel's point of view.
(b) A meditation on the nature of heroism.
(c) A feminist interpretation of Grendel's mother.
(d) A psychological study of motherhood.

5. 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?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Sovereignty.
(c) Justice.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison says that what is different about the discussion of including African-American literature in the canon is that unlike earlier arguments over expanding the canon, this one does what?

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

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

4. In "Faulkner and Women," what does Morrison say is characteristic of Black art?

5. In "Unspeakable Things Unspoken," Morrison says that arguments against the inclusion of African American writings in the canon follow a sequence that ends with what belief?

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