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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 "A Race in Mind," Morrison asks for more thoughtful work from what group?
(a) The press.
(b) Government.
(c) Authors.
(d) Art critics.

2. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?
(a) When the church collection plate was passed to raise money for Africa.
(b) The first time she was called a racial epithet.
(c) When she struggled to understand a movie set in Asia.
(d) Her own immigration to America from Ghana.

3. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," when Morrison suggests that writing about slavery cuts away at the scar tissue the blackbody uses to hide the slavebody, what technique is she using?
(a) Figurative language.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Logos.
(d) Ethos.

4. What is it that Morrison says distinguishes globalism from previous movements?
(a) Its speed.
(b) Its documentation in literature.
(c) The way it distributes wealth.
(d) Changes in political alliances.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "Literature and Public Life," what does Morrison say shapes our understanding of community?

3. What question does Morrison say is at the center of of government?

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

5. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?

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