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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. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?
(a) "What will we think during those longer, healthier lives?"
(b) "Art is temporal."
(c) "The future is already catastrophe."
(d) "We are being bullied into understanding."
2. In "Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes," what element does Morrison say is an aspect of the European American response to chaos lacking in the indigenous response?
(a) Disrespect.
(b) Wonder.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Pragmatism.
3. In "The In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison speculates about how much more knowledge we would have if scholarship was not held back by what?
(a) Governmental interference.
(b) Exclusion of Black scholars.
(c) Oppressive language.
(d) A lack of funding.
4. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison says that we must use freedom to do what?
(a) Create art.
(b) Overthrow corrupt institutions.
(c) Free others.
(d) Educate ourselves.
5. In "Arts Advocacy," Morrison recounts discovering that a highly regarded artist vetoed funding for another artist for what reason?
(a) He thought that having a secure income would ruin the other artist's work.
(b) He was jealous of the other artist's possible success.
(c) He knew that the other artist's work would sell better if the public saw him "struggling."
(d) He found the other artist's work too controversial.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?
2. According to "Harlem on My Mind," the term "postblack" refers to whom?
3. Morrison claims that after WWII, the language used to discuss war became more what?
4. Morrison's discussion of Huckleberry Finn in "Black Matter(s)" is intended as an illustration of what?
5. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that she is willing to talk about typical graduation topics like the future, responsibility, and goodness, but not what?
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