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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. Morrison claims that after WWII, the language used to discuss war became more what?
(a) Childish and simplistic.
(b) Propagandistic and angry.
(c) Elevated and heroic.
(d) Persuasive and subtle.

2. According to Morrison, how does fascism arise?
(a) By insisting that all people be treated identically.
(b) With sudden revolution.
(c) When minority groups gain power over the majority.
(d) As a series of small, orderly steps.

3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?
(a) Reassure.
(b) Criticize.
(c) Provoke.
(d) Remember.

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

5. 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) Generosity towards the vulnerable turning to violence as soon as the vulnerable try to advocate for themselves.
(c) The desire of wealthy Americans to spread a culture that other nations cannot afford.
(d) Creative imagination being limited by our own wealth and power.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Moral Inhabitants," Morrison says that the ability to make fine distinctions shows what?

2. In "The Individual Artist," why does Morrison say that the romantic vision of the artist is a "Procrustean bed"?

3. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that we live in the age of what?

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

5. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison relates an anecdote about which historical figure?

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