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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 when you hate you become what?
(a) A monster.
(b) An addict.
(c) A victim.
(d) A slave.

2. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?
(a) Devoted an entire exhibition to Romare Bearden.
(b) Mounted an exhibition more concerned with Black politics than art.
(c) Excluded Black artists from a major retrospective exhibition.
(d) Focused on the question of what makes Black art Black.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The ending of The Radiance of the King, according to Morrison, indicates that Clarence has undergone what kind of transformation?

5. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that we live in the age of what?

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