This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Part I--The Foreigner’s Home, including the essays “Moral Inhabitants” through “The Slavebody and the Blackbody”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Humility.
(b) Success.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Ambition.

2. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what does Morrison blame for diminishing our desire to care for others in modern times?
(a) Widespread poverty in our own country.
(b) The rise of fascism in Western democracies.
(c) Our fear of the movement of people across borders.
(d) The rise of non-governmental organizations.

3. What does Morrison say is at its greatest height since the time of the slave trade?
(a) The mass movement of people.
(b) Legislative attempts to integrate newcomers.
(c) The opening of boarders.
(d) Globalism.

4. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?
(a) Taking on the perspective of the "other."
(b) Disrupting the status quo with her provocative work.
(c) Creating great religious art.
(d) Placing art in public workplaces.

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