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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. Morrison claims that after WWII, the language used to discuss war became more what?
(a) Childish and simplistic.
(b) Propagandistic and angry.
(c) Elevated and heroic.
(d) Persuasive and subtle.

2. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?
(a) Creative imagination being limited by our own wealth and power.
(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) The desire of wealthy Americans to spread a culture that other nations cannot afford.

3. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?
(a) It is an ancient practice that is not always tied to racism.
(b) Writing about it can be cruel to modern African Americans.
(c) Most modern Americans do not have any historic ties to slavery.
(d) Slavery's consequences have been the same throughout history.

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?
(a) An addict.
(b) A victim.
(c) A slave.
(d) A monster.

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

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. "The War on Error" is a speech given to what group?

3. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?

4. 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?

5. In "The Individual Artist," why does Morrison say that the romantic vision of the artist is a "Procrustean bed"?

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