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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. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?
(a) Focused on the question of what makes Black art Black.
(b) Excluded Black artists from a major retrospective exhibition.
(c) Devoted an entire exhibition to Romare Bearden.
(d) Mounted an exhibition more concerned with Black politics than art.

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

3. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?
(a) History only shows us one side of these leaders.
(b) Great leaders are "ahead of their time."
(c) Slavery was a violent and degrading institution.
(d) Great leaders are born, not made.

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?
(a) An impractical luxury we cannot afford in modern times.
(b) Deliberate imagining that creates intimacy with the Other.
(c) Wasted time engaged in wishful thinking.
(d) A meditative state that improves the creative capacity of the Self.

5. What does Morrison praise the National Endowment for the Arts for in "The Individual Artist"?
(a) Funding art that everyone agrees is worthwhile.
(b) Taking risks on individual artists.
(c) Encouraging patriotism in the arts.
(d) Avoiding controversy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is a key characteristic of globalism, according to Morrison?

3. Store displays arranged to look like the interiors of houses and the interiors of houses arranged to look like store displays is an example Morrison gives of which aspect of globalism?

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

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

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