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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 public schools in Ohio that had never been segregated.
(b) In desegregated private schools throughout America.
(c) In public schools in Florida that were suddenly segregated while she was a student.
(d) In segregated private schools in New York.

2. What is it that Morrison says distinguishes globalism from previous movements?
(a) The way it distributes wealth.
(b) Its speed.
(c) Changes in political alliances.
(d) Its documentation in literature.

3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?
(a) The easy manipulation of well-educated people by supposedly uneducated people.
(b) The desire of wealthy Americans to spread a culture that other nations cannot afford.
(c) Generosity towards the vulnerable turning to violence as soon as the vulnerable try to advocate for themselves.
(d) Creative imagination being limited by our own wealth and power.

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?
(a) Its division of people into "center" and "margin."
(b) Corporate control of formerly public spaces.
(c) The boundless creation of wealth.
(d) The erasure of the line between public and private.

5. Mass migration, according to Morrison, causes what to happen?
(a) The surveillance state.
(b) Failure of the state.
(c) Expansion of identity to include the "other."
(d) Fear of foreignness.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?

5. What does Morrison say is a key reason for Western projections onto Africa?

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