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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 Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?
(a) Creating great religious art.
(b) Placing art in public workplaces.
(c) Taking on the perspective of the "other."
(d) Disrupting the status quo with her provocative work.

2. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?
(a) Television.
(b) Slavery.
(c) A mistress.
(d) An art critic.

3. What does Morrison say is at its greatest height since the time of the slave trade?
(a) The opening of boarders.
(b) Legislative attempts to integrate newcomers.
(c) Globalism.
(d) The mass movement of people.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Individual Artist," why does Morrison say that the romantic vision of the artist is a "Procrustean bed"?

2. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?

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

4. According to Morrison, identifying the race of a subject can have what unintended consequence?

5. Morrison claims that after WWII, the language used to discuss war became more what?

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