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) Philosophical thinking that questioned the power of the state.
(b) Movements against genocide and ethnic cleansing.
(c) Religious beliefs that differed from community norms.
(d) The acceptance of Africans into European society.

2. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?
(a) The debasement of language.
(b) Racism.
(c) The centering of African American culture.
(d) Class warfare.

3. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?
(a) He learns to fear becoming like native Africans.
(b) He opens himself to the African gaze.
(c) He fully inhabits Western ideals of masculinity.
(d) He is now worthy of being a king.

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) Ambition.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Humility.

5. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," where does the old woman say the answer to the children's question is?
(a) She doesn't actually answer their question.
(b) In their hands.
(c) In their hearts.
(d) In her eyes.