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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's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?
(a) The first time she was called a racial epithet.
(b) When the church collection plate was passed to raise money for Africa.
(c) When she struggled to understand a movie set in Asia.
(d) Her own immigration to America from Ghana.

2. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?
(a) Integrationists.
(b) Nonaligned humanists.
(c) Radical socialists.
(d) Libertarians.

3. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?
(a) He is now worthy of being a king.
(b) He fully inhabits Western ideals of masculinity.
(c) He opens himself to the African gaze.
(d) He learns to fear becoming like native Africans.

4. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what does Morrison blame for diminishing our desire to care for others in modern times?
(a) Widespread poverty in our own country.
(b) The rise of fascism in Western democracies.
(c) Our fear of the movement of people across borders.
(d) The rise of non-governmental organizations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that the public interest has been redefined as what?

2. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?

3. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison points out that in the original Grimm's version, the stepsisters were what?

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?

5. 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?

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