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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 she is willing to talk about typical graduation topics like the future, responsibility, and goodness, but not what?
(a) Success.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Humility.
(d) Ambition.

2. In "Arts Advocacy," Morrison recounts discovering that a highly regarded artist vetoed funding for another artist for what reason?
(a) He thought that having a secure income would ruin the other artist's work.
(b) He knew that the other artist's work would sell better if the public saw him "struggling."
(c) He was jealous of the other artist's possible success.
(d) He found the other artist's work too controversial.

3. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Foreignness.
(c) Marketing.
(d) Development.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?

3. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?

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

5. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?

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