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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. 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.

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

3. 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) Logos.
(b) Ethos.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Figurative language.

4. Based on your reading of "Arts Advocacy," which statement would Morrison agree with?
(a) Real artists are able to create regardless of their circumstances.
(b) Art is a steadying force in society.
(c) The existence of art in a society is precarious.
(d) Artists are not responsible for a dialogue with society.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Morrison says distinguishes globalism from previous movements?

2. In "Arts Advocacy," Morrison recounts discovering that a highly regarded artist vetoed funding for another artist for what reason?

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?

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

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

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