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 Nobel Lecture in Literature," What does Morrison refer to with the phrase "tongue-suicide"?
(a) A refusal to speak for what is right.
(b) The willingness to ban and destroy books.
(c) Lying.
(d) The death of language.

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

3. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?
(a) To question her audience's understanding of history.
(b) To illustrate the bloody history of wealth accumulation.
(c) To argue that history will always be cruel and inhumane.
(d) To compare the conquerors with the average citizen today.

4. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison's central claim is that women should not do what?
(a) Oppress other women.
(b) Participate in corrupt institutions.
(c) Undermine feminism by being too nurturing.
(d) Risk the gains women have made by trying to move forward too quickly.

5. Morrison begins "Moral Inhabitants" with a list of what Colonial import and export items?
(a) Indentured servants.
(b) Bibles and other religious tracts.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Guns.