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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. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?
(a) In desegregated private schools throughout America.
(b) In public schools in Florida that were suddenly segregated while she was a student.
(c) In public schools in Ohio that had never been segregated.
(d) In segregated private schools in New York.

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

3. 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) The rise of fascism in Western democracies.
(c) Widespread poverty in our own country.
(d) Our fear of the movement of people across borders.

4. In "The Individual Artist," why does Morrison say that the romantic vision of the artist is a "Procrustean bed"?
(a) Because the romantic ideal is old-fashioned.
(b) Because it makes a legend out of ordinary reality.
(c) Because it denies artists their individuality.
(d) Because it implies that artists suffer because they are lazy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison tells the anecdote about Antigone in Haiti to illustrate what point?

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

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

4. In "Moral Inhabitants," Morrison says that the ability to make fine distinctions shows what?

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

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