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

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 learns to fear becoming like native Africans.
(d) He fully inhabits Western ideals of masculinity.

3. According to Morrison, identifying the race of a subject can have what unintended consequence?
(a) Shaping public perception of whiteness.
(b) Inaccurately depicting race as "real" instead of as a "construct."
(c) Perpetuating stereotypes and marginalizing minorities.
(d) Better representation of marginalized communities.

4. In "The Individual Artist," what does Morrison find interesting about the feud between literary critics from different schools of criticism?
(a) Black authors are being centered in the canon for the first time.
(b) There seems to be no place for the artist in the argument.
(c) It has been covered in the Times Literary Supplement.
(d) Structuralists see the work as a dynamic interaction between reader and text.

5. 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 found the other artist's work too controversial.
(c) He knew that the other artist's work would sell better if the public saw him "struggling."
(d) He was jealous of the other artist's possible success.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?

2. Based on your reading of "Arts Advocacy," which statement would Morrison agree with?

3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?

4. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?

5. To whom does Morrison address her remarks about the dead of September 11, 2001?

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