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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 "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison compares the old woman in the story to what?
(a) A writer.
(b) A reader.
(c) A prophet.
(d) God.

2. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?
(a) Disrupting the status quo with her provocative work.
(b) Creating great religious art.
(c) Taking on the perspective of the "other."
(d) Placing art in public workplaces.

3. 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?
(a) A lack of funding.
(b) Governmental interference.
(c) Exclusion of Black scholars.
(d) Oppressive language.

4. 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) The rise of fascism in Western democracies.
(b) Widespread poverty in our own country.
(c) The rise of non-governmental organizations.
(d) Our fear of the movement of people across borders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Noblesse oblige" is a philosophy that urged the nobility to do what?

2. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?

3. 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?

4. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?

5. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," Morrison says what about slavery?

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