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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. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?
(a) Movements against genocide and ethnic cleansing.
(b) Philosophical thinking that questioned the power of the state.
(c) The acceptance of Africans into European society.
(d) Religious beliefs that differed from community norms.

2. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?
(a) North American.
(b) European.
(c) African.
(d) Asian.

3. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," What does Morrison refer to with the phrase "tongue-suicide"?
(a) The death of language.
(b) The willingness to ban and destroy books.
(c) A refusal to speak for what is right.
(d) Lying.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?

2. In "A Race in Mind," Morrison asks for more thoughtful work from what group?

3. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?

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?

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

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