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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. Mass migration, according to Morrison, causes what to happen?
(a) The surveillance state.
(b) Expansion of identity to include the "other."
(c) Failure of the state.
(d) Fear of foreignness.

2. 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?
(a) Success.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Humility.
(d) Happiness.

3. What does Morrison say is a key reason for Western projections onto Africa?
(a) Western ignorance about Africa.
(b) Missionaries' quest to Christianize Africa.
(c) The persecution of indigenous Africans.
(d) Africa's poverty.

4. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?
(a) To argue that history will always be cruel and inhumane.
(b) To illustrate the bloody history of wealth accumulation.
(c) To compare the conquerors with the average citizen today.
(d) To question her audience's understanding of history.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. "The War on Error" is a speech given to what group?

4. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that we live in the age of what?

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

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