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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Morrison says distinguishes globalism from previous movements?
(a) Its documentation in literature.
(b) Its speed.
(c) Changes in political alliances.
(d) The way it distributes wealth.

2. Which of the following is a key characteristic of globalism, according to Morrison?
(a) Unity among workers.
(b) Celebration of diversity.
(c) Creating world peace.
(d) The Americanization of the world.

3. Mass migration, according to Morrison, causes what to happen?
(a) Expansion of identity to include the "other."
(b) Fear of foreignness.
(c) Failure of the state.
(d) The surveillance state.

4. In "Race Matters," Morrison creates a metaphorical comparison between "race-specific, race-free" language and what?
(a) A borderless, safe, outdoor space.
(b) A church.
(c) Civil rights actions like the Selma bridge march.
(d) Romantic love.

5. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison says that a key "absence" in writing about racism is the omission of its impact on whom?
(a) Non-Black minorities.
(b) Future generations.
(c) Women.
(d) Perpetrators.

6. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that tow of the thematic concerns of her work are race and what?
(a) History.
(b) Home.
(c) Liberty.
(d) Gender.

7. According to Morrison, identifying the race of a subject can have what unintended consequence?
(a) Inaccurately depicting race as "real" instead of as a "construct."
(b) Shaping public perception of whiteness.
(c) Better representation of marginalized communities.
(d) Perpetuating stereotypes and marginalizing minorities.

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

9. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?
(a) It is an ancient practice that is not always tied to racism.
(b) Slavery's consequences have been the same throughout history.
(c) Writing about it can be cruel to modern African Americans.
(d) Most modern Americans do not have any historic ties to slavery.

10. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," what do the children ask the old woman about?
(a) A baby.
(b) A bird.
(c) Death.
(d) Love.

11. 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?
(a) She will be charged tuition for the time she spent on campus giving the speech.
(b) She will have to defend her speech before an academic committee.
(c) The university will decide to take her degree away.
(d) She will be accused of plagiarizing the writer Toni Morrison.

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

13. "The War on Error" is a speech given to what group?
(a) The Newspaper Association of America.
(b) Amnesty International.
(c) ArtTable.
(d) Sarah Lawrence College.

14. In "A Race in Mind," Morrison asks for more thoughtful work from what group?
(a) Government.
(b) Authors.
(c) Art critics.
(d) The press.

15. Morrison compares the Africa of the Western imagination to what legendary monster?
(a) Grendel.
(b) Medusa.
(c) The Sphinx.
(d) Leviathan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?

2. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?

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

4. 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?

5. In "Black Matter(s)," Morrison speculates that slaves offered white Americans a sense of what?

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