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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Interlude--Black Matter(s), including the essays “Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.” through “Black Matter(s)”.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison points out that in the original Grimm's version, the stepsisters were what?
(a) Desperate for their mother's love.
(b) Oppressed just like Cinderella.
(c) Beautiful, powerful women.
(d) The instigators of Cinderella's torment.

4. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison relates an anecdote about which historical figure?
(a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(b) Mary Shelly.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?

3. In "Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.," what does Morrison say she wonders about MLK?

4. In "The Future of Time," Morrison worries that we increasingly turn to the past for what?

5. 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?

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