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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, globalism creates a fear of what?
(a) Marketing.
(b) Ideology.
(c) Development.
(d) Foreignness.

2. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison points out that in the original Grimm's version, the stepsisters were what?
(a) Desperate for their mother's love.
(b) Beautiful, powerful women.
(c) The instigators of Cinderella's torment.
(d) Oppressed just like Cinderella.

3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?
(a) Generosity towards the vulnerable turning to violence as soon as the vulnerable try to advocate for themselves.
(b) Creative imagination being limited by our own wealth and power.
(c) The easy manipulation of well-educated people by supposedly uneducated people.
(d) The desire of wealthy Americans to spread a culture that other nations cannot afford.

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

5. 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) Structuralists see the work as a dynamic interaction between reader and text.
(c) It has been covered in the Times Literary Supplement.
(d) There seems to be no place for the artist in the argument.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison say is a key reason for Western projections onto Africa?

2. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?

3. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?

4. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?

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

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