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

2. "The War on Error" is a speech given to what group?
(a) ArtTable.
(b) Sarah Lawrence College.
(c) The Newspaper Association of America.
(d) Amnesty International.

3. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?
(a) "Art is temporal."
(b) "We are being bullied into understanding."
(c) "What will we think during those longer, healthier lives?"
(d) "The future is already catastrophe."

4. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," what do the children ask the old woman about?
(a) Death.
(b) A bird.
(c) A baby.
(d) Love.

5. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what does Morrison blame for diminishing our desire to care for others in modern times?
(a) The rise of fascism in Western democracies.
(b) Widespread poverty in our own country.
(c) Our fear of the movement of people across borders.
(d) The rise of non-governmental organizations.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?

4. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison blames what group for the oppression of women?

5. Based on your reading of "Arts Advocacy," which statement would Morrison agree with?

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