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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. What question does Morrison say is at the center of of government?
(a) Distribution of wealth.
(b) Cultural apartheid or integration.
(c) Control over history's narrative.
(d) Creating peace and security.

2. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?
(a) Literature.
(b) Religion.
(c) Science.
(d) The past.

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

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

5. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?
(a) It contained racist materials and did not include much art by African American artists.
(b) Critics did not understand the cultural aesthetics the exhibit represented.
(c) New York was not ready for Black art in 1969, and attendance was very low.
(d) The exhibit was too ambitious and tried to incorporate too many different kinds of art.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?

2. In "A Race in Mind," Morrison asks for more thoughtful work from what group?

3. In "The Individual Artist," what does Morrison find interesting about the feud between literary critics from different schools of criticism?

4. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison points out that in the original Grimm's version, the stepsisters were what?

5. In "The Future of Time," what does Morrison say it seems like "the future" means to people today?

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