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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 her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that she is willing to talk about typical graduation topics like the future, responsibility, and goodness, but not what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Success.
(c) Humility.
(d) Ambition.

2. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?
(a) In public schools in Florida that were suddenly segregated while she was a student.
(b) In public schools in Ohio that had never been segregated.
(c) In segregated private schools in New York.
(d) In desegregated private schools throughout America.

3. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," where does the old woman say the answer to the children's question is?
(a) She doesn't actually answer their question.
(b) In their hearts.
(c) In her eyes.
(d) In their hands.

4. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison says that we must use freedom to do what?
(a) Free others.
(b) Create art.
(c) Overthrow corrupt institutions.
(d) Educate ourselves.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?

2. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison opens by joking that because she was once a student at the place she is now speaking, what might happen after her speech?

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

4. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?

5. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," what do the children ask the old woman about?

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