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

2. According to "Harlem on My Mind," the term "postblack" refers to whom?
(a) Black artists who distance themselves from Blackness by identifying with white culture.
(b) Critics who refuse to evaluate Black art according to the aesthetics of the Black community.
(c) Black artists who want their art to be evaluated by aesthetic standards only--not classified according to their race.
(d) Critics who make race the key factor in their analysis of works of art.

3. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," what does Morrison call the "ghost in the machine"?
(a) The slavebody.
(b) The blackbody.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Racism.

4. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?
(a) Most modern Americans do not have any historic ties to slavery.
(b) Slavery's consequences have been the same throughout history.
(c) Writing about it can be cruel to modern African Americans.
(d) It is an ancient practice that is not always tied to racism.

5. 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) In her eyes.
(c) She doesn't actually answer their question.
(d) In their hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Future of Time," what does Morrison say it seems like "the future" means to people today?

2. Morrison begins "Moral Inhabitants" with a list of what Colonial import and export items?

3. The art show Morrison discusses in "Harlem on My Mind" had a catalog with a forward written by whom?

4. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," what do the children ask the old woman about?

5. Based on your reading of "Arts Advocacy," which statement would Morrison agree with?

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