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

2. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?
(a) The debasement of language.
(b) Class warfare.
(c) The centering of African American culture.
(d) Racism.

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

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

5. What does Morrison say is a key reason for Western projections onto Africa?
(a) Western ignorance about Africa.
(b) Missionaries' quest to Christianize Africa.
(c) The persecution of indigenous Africans.
(d) Africa's poverty.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Based on your reading of "Arts Advocacy," which statement would Morrison agree with?

5. Morrison claims that after WWII, the language used to discuss war became more what?

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