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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 her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?
(a) A meditative state that improves the creative capacity of the Self.
(b) Deliberate imagining that creates intimacy with the Other.
(c) An impractical luxury we cannot afford in modern times.
(d) Wasted time engaged in wishful thinking.

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

3. What does Morrison say is a key reason for Western projections onto Africa?
(a) Missionaries' quest to Christianize Africa.
(b) Africa's poverty.
(c) The persecution of indigenous Africans.
(d) Western ignorance about Africa.

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

5. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?
(a) It contained racist materials and did not include much art by African American artists.
(b) The exhibit was too ambitious and tried to incorporate too many different kinds of art.
(c) New York was not ready for Black art in 1969, and attendance was very low.
(d) Critics did not understand the cultural aesthetics the exhibit represented.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that the public interest has been redefined as what?

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

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

4. In "The Future of Time," Morrison points to what two forces as responsible for our modern relationship to the future?

5. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?

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