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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. In "The Future of Time," what does Morrison say it seems like "the future" means to people today?
(a) Nothing at all.
(b) Despair.
(c) Infinity.
(d) 20-40 years from now.

2. In "The Future of Time," Morrison points to what two forces as responsible for our modern relationship to the future?
(a) Religion and literature.
(b) Science and technology.
(c) Women's Liberation and the Civil Rights Movement.
(d) Secularism and the Cold War.

3. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?
(a) Creating great religious art.
(b) Placing art in public workplaces.
(c) Disrupting the status quo with her provocative work.
(d) Taking on the perspective of the "other."

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?
(a) A monster.
(b) An addict.
(c) A slave.
(d) A victim.

5. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?
(a) Prevent strangers from entering their lands.
(b) Share their wealth.
(c) Seize power from the church.
(d) Accumulate as much land as possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?

2. In "The Individual Artist," what does Morrison find interesting about the feud between literary critics from different schools of criticism?

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?

4. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?

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

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