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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 "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?
(a) An art critic.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Television.
(d) A mistress.

2. Based on your reading of "Arts Advocacy," which statement would Morrison agree with?
(a) The existence of art in a society is precarious.
(b) Real artists are able to create regardless of their circumstances.
(c) Art is a steadying force in society.
(d) Artists are not responsible for a dialogue with society.

3. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?
(a) The acceptance of Africans into European society.
(b) Religious beliefs that differed from community norms.
(c) Movements against genocide and ethnic cleansing.
(d) Philosophical thinking that questioned the power of the state.

4. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?
(a) Accumulate as much land as possible.
(b) Seize power from the church.
(c) Prevent strangers from entering their lands.
(d) Share their wealth.

5. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?
(a) Focused on the question of what makes Black art Black.
(b) Excluded Black artists from a major retrospective exhibition.
(c) Devoted an entire exhibition to Romare Bearden.
(d) Mounted an exhibition more concerned with Black politics than art.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison says that we must use freedom to do what?

3. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison compares the old woman in the story to what?

4. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?

5. Mass migration, according to Morrison, causes what to happen?

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