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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 Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?
(a) To compare the conquerors with the average citizen today.
(b) To question her audience's understanding of history.
(c) To argue that history will always be cruel and inhumane.
(d) To illustrate the bloody history of wealth accumulation.

2. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?
(a) Most modern Americans do not have any historic ties to slavery.
(b) Writing about it can be cruel to modern African Americans.
(c) Slavery's consequences have been the same throughout history.
(d) It is an ancient practice that is not always tied to racism.

3. According to Morrison, how does fascism arise?
(a) When minority groups gain power over the majority.
(b) By insisting that all people be treated identically.
(c) As a series of small, orderly steps.
(d) With sudden revolution.

4. Morrison claims that after WWII, the language used to discuss war became more what?
(a) Propagandistic and angry.
(b) Elevated and heroic.
(c) Childish and simplistic.
(d) Persuasive and subtle.

5. In "The Individual Artist," what does Morrison find interesting about the feud between literary critics from different schools of criticism?
(a) Black authors are being centered in the canon for the first time.
(b) It has been covered in the Times Literary Supplement.
(c) There seems to be no place for the artist in the argument.
(d) Structuralists see the work as a dynamic interaction between reader and text.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Future of Time," what does Morrison say it seems like "the future" means to people today?

3. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?

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

5. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?

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