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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 story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," where does the old woman say the answer to the children's question is?
(a) In their hearts.
(b) She doesn't actually answer their question.
(c) In their hands.
(d) In her eyes.

2. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?
(a) Conflict between women.
(b) Hostility between the classes.
(c) A conflict that hurts both sides.
(d) A philosophical difference that divides a group.

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

4. In "The Individual Artist," what does Morrison find interesting about the feud between literary critics from different schools of criticism?
(a) Structuralists see the work as a dynamic interaction between reader and text.
(b) There seems to be no place for the artist in the argument.
(c) Black authors are being centered in the canon for the first time.
(d) It has been covered in the Times Literary Supplement.

5. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," What does Morrison refer to with the phrase "tongue-suicide"?
(a) A refusal to speak for what is right.
(b) The death of language.
(c) Lying.
(d) The willingness to ban and destroy books.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?

2. 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?

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

4. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison relates an anecdote about which historical figure?

5. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?

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