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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. Mass migration, according to Morrison, causes what to happen?
(a) The surveillance state.
(b) Fear of foreignness.
(c) Failure of the state.
(d) Expansion of identity to include the "other."

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

3. In "The Individual Artist," why does Morrison say that the romantic vision of the artist is a "Procrustean bed"?
(a) Because the romantic ideal is old-fashioned.
(b) Because it implies that artists suffer because they are lazy.
(c) Because it denies artists their individuality.
(d) Because it makes a legend out of ordinary reality.

4. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," what does Morrison call the "ghost in the machine"?
(a) The blackbody.
(b) The slavebody.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Racism.

5. Morrison claims that after WWII, the language used to discuss war became more what?
(a) Elevated and heroic.
(b) Childish and simplistic.
(c) Persuasive and subtle.
(d) Propagandistic and angry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?

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

4. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?

5. In "The Future of Time," Morrison points to what two forces as responsible for our modern relationship to the future?

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