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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Part I--The Foreigner’s Home, including the essays “Harlem on My Mind: Contesting Memory--Meditation on Museums, Culture, and Integration” through “The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Morrison, identifying the race of a subject can have what unintended consequence?
(a) Shaping public perception of whiteness.
(b) Inaccurately depicting race as "real" instead of as a "construct."
(c) Better representation of marginalized communities.
(d) Perpetuating stereotypes and marginalizing minorities.

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

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) The boundless creation of wealth.
(b) Corporate control of formerly public spaces.
(c) The erasure of the line between public and private.
(d) Its division of people into "center" and "margin."

4. In "The Individual Artist," what does Morrison find interesting about the feud between literary critics from different schools of criticism?
(a) Black authors are being centered in the canon for the first time.
(b) There seems to be no place for the artist in the argument.
(c) It has been covered in the Times Literary Supplement.
(d) Structuralists see the work as a dynamic interaction between reader and text.

5. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison tells the anecdote about Antigone in Haiti to illustrate what point?
(a) Acting in a play is therapeutic.
(b) Dictators try to crush artistic expression.
(c) Ancient Greek works are still relevant today.
(d) Art has real-world power.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, how does fascism arise?

2. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison blames what group for the oppression of women?

3. In "The Future of Time," Morrison worries that we increasingly turn to the past for what?

4. Which of the following is a key characteristic of globalism, according to Morrison?

5. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?

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