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

2. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?
(a) The easy manipulation of well-educated people by supposedly uneducated people.
(b) Creative imagination being limited by our own wealth and power.
(c) The desire of wealthy Americans to spread a culture that other nations cannot afford.
(d) Generosity towards the vulnerable turning to violence as soon as the vulnerable try to advocate for themselves.

3. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Development.
(c) Foreignness.
(d) Marketing.

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?
(a) Deliberate imagining that creates intimacy with the Other.
(b) Wasted time engaged in wishful thinking.
(c) An impractical luxury we cannot afford in modern times.
(d) A meditative state that improves the creative capacity of the Self.

5. What is it that Morrison says distinguishes globalism from previous movements?
(a) The way it distributes wealth.
(b) Its documentation in literature.
(c) Its speed.
(d) Changes in political alliances.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, how does fascism arise?

2. According to Morrison, identifying the race of a subject can have what unintended consequence?

3. In "The Individual Artist," why does Morrison say that the romantic vision of the artist is a "Procrustean bed"?

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

5. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?

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