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In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, what is unusual about the female character Pilate?
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What war did Shadrach come home from at the beginning of Toni Morrison's Sula?
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In the first line of Toni Morrison's Beloved, what was ornery?
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162 times (24.8%) |
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Who did Toni Morrison write her thesis about for her Master’s degree at Cornell?
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71 times (29.3%) |
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The three whores in the Toni Morrison novel The Bluest Eye represent:
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114 times (41.2%) |
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123 times (44.4%) |
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Toni Morrison's novel framed by the African-American vernacular tradition of the flying African is:
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113 times |
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36 times (16.3%) |
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very difficult |
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77 times (34.8%) |
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The tale of the blind African horsemen who were said to have been riding the hills for a century appears in which Toni Morrison novel?
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23 times (10.5%) |
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"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honey-moons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common."
From which Toni Morrison novel is this quote taken?
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56 times (24.8%) |
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Who murdered his unfaithful lover, Dorcas, in the Toni Morrison novel Jazz?
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51 times |
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17 times (21.8%) |
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34 times (43.6%) |
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"Girls can do that. Steer a man away from death or drive him right to it. Pull you out of sleep and you wake up on the ground under a tree you’ll never locate again because you’re lost. Of if you do find it, it won’t be the same."
From which Toni Morrison novel is this quote taken?
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30 times (13.3%) |
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"She was an evil conjure woman, blessed with seven adoring children whose joy it was to bring her the plants, hair, underclothing, fingernail parings, white hens, blood, camphor, pictures, kerosene and footstep dust that she needed, as well as to order Van Van, High John the Conqueror, Little John to Chew, Devil’s Shoe String, Chinese Wash, Mustard Seed and the the Nine Herbs from Cincinnati."
From which Toni Morrison novel is this quote taken?
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44 times (20.2%) |
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"They looked at his skin and saw it was as black as theirs, but they knew he had the heart of the white men who came to pick them up in the trucks when they needed anonymous, faceless laborers."
From which Toni Morrison novel is this quote taken?
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95 times |
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37 times (17.4%) |
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58 times (27.2%) |
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"He thought about innocence there in his greenhouse and knew that he was guilty of it because he had lived with a woman who had made something kneel down in him the first time he saw her, but about whom he knew nothing; had watched his son grow and talk but also about whom he had known nothing."
From which Toni Morrison novel is this quote taken?
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35 times (16.5%) |
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"When all us left from down home and was waiting down by the depot for the truck, it was nighttime. June bugs was shooting everywhere. They lighted up a tree leaf, and I seen a streak of green every now and again. That was the last time I seen real june bugs."
From which Toni Morrison novel is this quote taken?
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91 times |
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23 times (10.8%) |
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68 times (32.1%) |
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The title Morrison had originally chosen for Paradise was
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In 1985 Toni Morrison wrote a play that centered around:
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In her short story Recitatif, an experiment in communicating without using racial codes, Toni Morrison portrays:
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56 times (25.9%) |
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In her acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in 1993 Toni Morrison told of the:
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In Toni Morrison´s Beloved, why does Sethe kill her daughter?
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552 times (68.3%) |
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136 times (16.8%) |
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In the book A Mercy by Toni Morrison, what is Jacob's work?
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142 times |
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65 times (27.9%) |
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In A Mercy by Toni Morrison, why does Floren's mother give her away?
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90 times (45.0%) |
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44 times (22.0%) |
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What does Jacob call Rebekka in A Mercy by Toni Morrison?
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120 times (54.1%) |
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36 times (16.2%) |
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How did Patrician die in "A Mercy" by Toni Morrison?
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68 times (35.8%) |
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Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer prize in literature for which novel?
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19074 times (61.5%) |
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What is strange about Sula's physical appearance in Toni Morrison's novel of the same name, Sula?
Sula
Toni Morrison
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93 times (34.2%) |
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In Toni Morrison's A Mercy, which of the servants is Indian American?
A Mercy
Toni Morrison
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112 times (37.1%) |
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In Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Jacob Vaark constructs an extravagant home just before his death. What adorns the top of the intricate gate?
A Mercy
Toni Morrison
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265 times |
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162 times (39.0%) |
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103 times (24.8%) |
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What is the name of the plantation from with Sethe escapes in Toni Morrison's Beloved?
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174 times (28.2%) |
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Which of the following authors won the Nobel Prize for literature first?
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780 times (54.5%) |
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Who is the most recent US winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (as of 2008)?
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