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

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

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

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

5. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?
(a) Religion.
(b) Science.
(c) The past.
(d) Literature.

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. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison tells the anecdote about Antigone in Haiti to illustrate what point?

3. In "Moral Inhabitants," Morrison says that the ability to make fine distinctions shows what?

4. What does Morrison say is a key reason for Western projections onto Africa?

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

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