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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. According to Morrison, how does fascism arise?
(a) When minority groups gain power over the majority.
(b) By insisting that all people be treated identically.
(c) As a series of small, orderly steps.
(d) With sudden revolution.

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

3. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?
(a) Placing art in public workplaces.
(b) Taking on the perspective of the "other."
(c) Disrupting the status quo with her provocative work.
(d) Creating great religious art.

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. "The War on Error" is a speech given to what group?
(a) Sarah Lawrence College.
(b) ArtTable.
(c) Amnesty International.
(d) The Newspaper Association of America.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Arts Advocacy," Morrison recounts discovering that a highly regarded artist vetoed funding for another artist for what reason?

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

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

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

5. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?

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