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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. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?
(a) The first time she was called a racial epithet.
(b) Her own immigration to America from Ghana.
(c) When the church collection plate was passed to raise money for Africa.
(d) When she struggled to understand a movie set in Asia.

2. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?
(a) Radical socialists.
(b) Nonaligned humanists.
(c) Libertarians.
(d) Integrationists.

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

4. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison's central claim is that women should not do what?
(a) Undermine feminism by being too nurturing.
(b) Oppress other women.
(c) Risk the gains women have made by trying to move forward too quickly.
(d) Participate in corrupt institutions.

5. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," what does Morrison call the "ghost in the machine"?
(a) Racism.
(b) The slavebody.
(c) The blackbody.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?

2. In "Literature and Public Life," what does Morrison say shapes our understanding of community?

3. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?

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

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

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