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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. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?
(a) In segregated private schools in New York.
(b) In public schools in Ohio that had never been segregated.
(c) In desegregated private schools throughout America.
(d) In public schools in Florida that were suddenly segregated while she was a student.

2. "The War on Error" is a speech given to what group?
(a) The Newspaper Association of America.
(b) Sarah Lawrence College.
(c) ArtTable.
(d) Amnesty International.

3. What does Morrison say is at its greatest height since the time of the slave trade?
(a) The mass movement of people.
(b) The opening of boarders.
(c) Globalism.
(d) Legislative attempts to integrate newcomers.

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

5. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Marketing.
(c) Foreignness.
(d) Development.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?

3. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?

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

5. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?

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