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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 her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?
(a) Provoke.
(b) Criticize.
(c) Remember.
(d) Reassure.

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

3. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?
(a) An art critic.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Television.
(d) A mistress.

4. 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) Globalism.
(d) The opening of boarders.

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) Dictators try to crush artistic expression.
(c) Art has real-world power.
(d) Acting in a play is therapeutic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison praise the National Endowment for the Arts for in "The Individual Artist"?

2. Mass migration, according to Morrison, causes what to happen?

3. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?

4. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?

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

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