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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Corporate control of formerly public spaces.
(b) Its division of people into "center" and "margin."
(c) The erasure of the line between public and private.
(d) The boundless creation of wealth.

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

3. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?
(a) He learns to fear becoming like native Africans.
(b) He opens himself to the African gaze.
(c) He fully inhabits Western ideals of masculinity.
(d) He is now worthy of being a king.

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

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

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

7. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what does Morrison blame for diminishing our desire to care for others in modern times?
(a) Widespread poverty in our own country.
(b) Our fear of the movement of people across borders.
(c) The rise of non-governmental organizations.
(d) The rise of fascism in Western democracies.

8. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?
(a) "What will we think during those longer, healthier lives?"
(b) "Art is temporal."
(c) "We are being bullied into understanding."
(d) "The future is already catastrophe."

9. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that the public interest has been redefined as what?
(a) Extremism.
(b) Class warfare.
(c) Private interest.
(d) Special interests.

10. In "Moral Inhabitants," Morrison says that the ability to make fine distinctions shows what?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Morality.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Ignorance.

11. Morrison's discussion of Huckleberry Finn in "Black Matter(s)" is intended as an illustration of what?
(a) The shadow of Puritanism in fiction.
(b) Gothic Romanticism.
(c) Historical accuracy in fiction.
(d) American Africanism.

12. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that she refuses to write in what voice?
(a) A masculine one.
(b) The master's.
(c) The slave's.
(d) A race-specific one.

13. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison blames what group for the oppression of women?
(a) Other women.
(b) Writers.
(c) The Christian church.
(d) Government.

14. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?
(a) A conflict that hurts both sides.
(b) Hostility between the classes.
(c) A philosophical difference that divides a group.
(d) Conflict between women.

15. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?
(a) Class warfare.
(b) The centering of African American culture.
(c) The debasement of language.
(d) Racism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?

3. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?

4. To whom does Morrison address her remarks about the dead of September 11, 2001?

5. 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?

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