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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. 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?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Success.
(d) Humility.

2. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?
(a) Great leaders are "ahead of their time."
(b) History only shows us one side of these leaders.
(c) Slavery was a violent and degrading institution.
(d) Great leaders are born, not made.

3. In "The Future of Time," Morrison points to what two forces as responsible for our modern relationship to the future?
(a) Secularism and the Cold War.
(b) Religion and literature.
(c) Women's Liberation and the Civil Rights Movement.
(d) Science and technology.

4. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?
(a) The acceptance of Africans into European society.
(b) Religious beliefs that differed from community norms.
(c) Movements against genocide and ethnic cleansing.
(d) Philosophical thinking that questioned the power of the state.

5. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?
(a) Deliberate imagining that creates intimacy with the Other.
(b) A meditative state that improves the creative capacity of the Self.
(c) Wasted time engaged in wishful thinking.
(d) An impractical luxury we cannot afford in modern times.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Moral Inhabitants," Morrison says that the ability to make fine distinctions shows what?

2. In "The Individual Artist," why does Morrison say that the romantic vision of the artist is a "Procrustean bed"?

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

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

5. According to "Harlem on My Mind," the term "postblack" refers to whom?

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