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

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

3. In "The Future of Time," Morrison worries that we increasingly turn to the past for what?
(a) Answers to current problems.
(b) Visions of what our future could be.
(c) Philosophical wisdom.
(d) Evidence to confirm our biases.

4. In "The In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison speculates about how much more knowledge we would have if scholarship was not held back by what?
(a) Oppressive language.
(b) Exclusion of Black scholars.
(c) A lack of funding.
(d) Governmental interference.

5. In "Literature and Public Life," what does Morrison say shapes our understanding of community?
(a) The media, especially television.
(b) Literature from outside the canon.
(c) Government propaganda.
(d) Literature from the canon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?

2. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," where does the old woman say the answer to the children's question is?

3. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?

5. 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?

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