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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 In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison speculates about how much more knowledge we would have if scholarship was not held back by what?
(a) A lack of funding.
(b) Oppressive language.
(c) Exclusion of Black scholars.
(d) Governmental interference.

2. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?
(a) Provoke.
(b) Reassure.
(c) Criticize.
(d) Remember.

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

4. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?
(a) Share their wealth.
(b) Accumulate as much land as possible.
(c) Seize power from the church.
(d) Prevent strangers from entering their lands.

5. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that we live in the age of what?
(a) Conscience.
(b) Spectacle.
(c) Inquiry.
(d) Resignation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Morrison compares the Africa of the Western imagination to what legendary monster?

2. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?

3. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?

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

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

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