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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. In "Black Matter(s)," what does Morrison say she means by "American Africanism"?

4. According to Morrison's "Black Matter(s)," the slave population became the focus of what fundamental feeling of the colonists?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. in “The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what stages does Morrison trace the evolution of Western culture's attitude toward the accumulation of money?

2. In “The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations," why does Morrison say it is important for us to turn our attention to the future?

3. In “The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison explains why oppressive language is a problem: what effects does she claim it has?

4. In “Racism and Fascism,” what does Morrison say are the characteristics of fascism?

5. In “The Dead of September 11,” Morrison alludes to a famous speech. What speech does she allude to and what is the purpose of this allusion?

6. In “The Individual Artist," what is the paradox that Morrison says artists face?

7. In “Wartalk,” how does Morrison say that globalization differs from colonialism and internationalism?

8. In “War Against Error," what does Morrison propose as a new "curriculum," and what does she hope it will accomplish?

9. According to Morrison's “Women, Race, and Memory," what are the assumptions behind infighting among women?

10. In “Black Matter(s)," what main points does Morrison make about the alleged race-neutrality of American history?

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