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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 question does Morrison say is at the center of of government?
(a) Creating peace and security.
(b) Cultural apartheid or integration.
(c) Distribution of wealth.
(d) Control over history's narrative.

2. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?
(a) He is now worthy of being a king.
(b) He opens himself to the African gaze.
(c) He fully inhabits Western ideals of masculinity.
(d) He learns to fear becoming like native Africans.

3. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison tells the anecdote about Antigone in Haiti to illustrate what point?
(a) Acting in a play is therapeutic.
(b) Dictators try to crush artistic expression.
(c) Ancient Greek works are still relevant today.
(d) Art has real-world power.

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

5. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," when Morrison suggests that writing about slavery cuts away at the scar tissue the blackbody uses to hide the slavebody, what technique is she using?
(a) Figurative language.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Ethos.
(d) Logos.

Short Answer 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?

2. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?

3. Store displays arranged to look like the interiors of houses and the interiors of houses arranged to look like store displays is an example Morrison gives of which aspect of globalism?

4. In "A Race in Mind," Morrison asks for more thoughtful work from what group?

5. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?

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