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

2. In "Moral Inhabitants," Morrison says that the ability to make fine distinctions shows what?
(a) Morality.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Intelligence.

3. According to Morrison, identifying the race of a subject can have what unintended consequence?
(a) Shaping public perception of whiteness.
(b) Better representation of marginalized communities.
(c) Inaccurately depicting race as "real" instead of as a "construct."
(d) Perpetuating stereotypes and marginalizing minorities.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Morrison says distinguishes globalism from previous movements?

2. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," when Morrison suggests that writing about slavery cuts away at the scar tissue the blackbody uses to hide the slavebody, what technique is she using?

3. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?

4. In "The In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison speculates about how much more knowledge we would have if scholarship was not held back by what?

5. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?

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