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

2. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?
(a) Prevent strangers from entering their lands.
(b) Share their wealth.
(c) Accumulate as much land as possible.
(d) Seize power from the church.

3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?
(a) A victim.
(b) An addict.
(c) A monster.
(d) A slave.

4. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?
(a) Movements against genocide and ethnic cleansing.
(b) Philosophical thinking that questioned the power of the state.
(c) Religious beliefs that differed from community norms.
(d) The acceptance of Africans into European society.

5. 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) The rise of non-governmental organizations.
(b) Our fear of the movement of people across borders.
(c) Widespread poverty in our own country.
(d) The rise of fascism in Western democracies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?

2. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?

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

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?

5. Morrison compares the Africa of the Western imagination to what legendary monster?

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