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

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

3. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?
(a) The first time she was called a racial epithet.
(b) When she struggled to understand a movie set in Asia.
(c) Her own immigration to America from Ghana.
(d) When the church collection plate was passed to raise money for Africa.

4. Morrison claims that after WWII, the language used to discuss war became more what?
(a) Propagandistic and angry.
(b) Elevated and heroic.
(c) Childish and simplistic.
(d) Persuasive and subtle.

5. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison tells the anecdote about Antigone in Haiti to illustrate what point?
(a) Ancient Greek works are still relevant today.
(b) Acting in a play is therapeutic.
(c) Art has real-world power.
(d) Dictators try to crush artistic expression.

Short Answer 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?

2. What question does Morrison say is at the center of of government?

3. In "The Individual Artist," what does Morrison find interesting about the feud between literary critics from different schools of criticism?

4. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?

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

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