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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 "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison blames what group for the oppression of women?
(a) Writers.
(b) Other women.
(c) Government.
(d) The Christian church.

2. 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.

3. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?
(a) The centering of African American culture.
(b) Class warfare.
(c) The debasement of language.
(d) Racism.

4. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?
(a) Development.
(b) Ideology.
(c) Marketing.
(d) Foreignness.

5. The art show Morrison discusses in "Harlem on My Mind" had a catalog with a forward written by whom?
(a) Romare Bearden.
(b) Toni Morrison.
(c) The city parks commissioner.
(d) A high-school student.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison compares the old woman in the story to what?

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

4. What does Morrison praise the National Endowment for the Arts for in "The Individual Artist"?

5. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?

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