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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. According to "Harlem on My Mind," the term "postblack" refers to whom?
(a) Black artists who distance themselves from Blackness by identifying with white culture.
(b) Critics who refuse to evaluate Black art according to the aesthetics of the Black community.
(c) Critics who make race the key factor in their analysis of works of art.
(d) Black artists who want their art to be evaluated by aesthetic standards only--not classified according to their race.

2. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," What does Morrison refer to with the phrase "tongue-suicide"?
(a) The death of language.
(b) Lying.
(c) A refusal to speak for what is right.
(d) The willingness to ban and destroy books.

3. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?
(a) When the church collection plate was passed to raise money for Africa.
(b) The first time she was called a racial epithet.
(c) Her own immigration to America from Ghana.
(d) When she struggled to understand a movie set in Asia.

4. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?
(a) Conflict between women.
(b) A philosophical difference that divides a group.
(c) A conflict that hurts both sides.
(d) Hostility between the classes.

5. In "A Race in Mind," Morrison asks for more thoughtful work from what group?
(a) Art critics.
(b) The press.
(c) Government.
(d) Authors.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," what do the children ask the old woman about?

2. 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?

3. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?

4. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?

5. Morrison begins "Moral Inhabitants" with a list of what Colonial import and export items?

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