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

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

3. In "The Individual Artist," why does Morrison say that the romantic vision of the artist is a "Procrustean bed"?
(a) Because it makes a legend out of ordinary reality.
(b) Because it implies that artists suffer because they are lazy.
(c) Because the romantic ideal is old-fashioned.
(d) Because it denies artists their individuality.

4. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that the public interest has been redefined as what?
(a) Extremism.
(b) Special interests.
(c) Private interest.
(d) Class warfare.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Store displays arranged to look like the interiors of houses and the interiors of houses arranged to look like store displays is an example Morrison gives of which aspect of globalism?

5. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?

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