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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Part I--The Foreigner’s Home, including the essays “Harlem on My Mind: Contesting Memory--Meditation on Museums, Culture, and Integration” through “The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Individual Artist," why does Morrison say that the romantic vision of the artist is a "Procrustean bed"?
(a) Because the romantic ideal is old-fashioned.
(b) Because it implies that artists suffer because they are lazy.
(c) Because it makes a legend out of ordinary reality.
(d) Because it denies artists their individuality.

2. Morrison begins "Moral Inhabitants" with a list of what Colonial import and export items?
(a) Bibles and other religious tracts.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Indentured servants.
(d) Guns.

3. In "The Future of Time," Morrison worries that we increasingly turn to the past for what?
(a) Philosophical wisdom.
(b) Evidence to confirm our biases.
(c) Answers to current problems.
(d) Visions of what our future could be.

4. In "The In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison speculates about how much more knowledge we would have if scholarship was not held back by what?
(a) Governmental interference.
(b) A lack of funding.
(c) Oppressive language.
(d) Exclusion of Black scholars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," What does Morrison refer to with the phrase "tongue-suicide"?

2. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," where does the old woman say the answer to the children's question is?

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

4. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?

5. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," what does Morrison call the "ghost in the machine"?

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