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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. What does Morrison praise the National Endowment for the Arts for in "The Individual Artist"?
(a) Funding art that everyone agrees is worthwhile.
(b) Taking risks on individual artists.
(c) Avoiding controversy.
(d) Encouraging patriotism in the arts.

2. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison says that we must use freedom to do what?
(a) Create art.
(b) Free others.
(c) Overthrow corrupt institutions.
(d) Educate ourselves.

3. What question does Morrison say is at the center of of government?
(a) Control over history's narrative.
(b) Cultural apartheid or integration.
(c) Distribution of wealth.
(d) Creating peace and security.

4. 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?
(a) Success.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Humility.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?

2. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what does Morrison blame for diminishing our desire to care for others in modern times?

3. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?

5. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?

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