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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 Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?
(a) A mistress.
(b) An art critic.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Television.

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

3. "The War on Error" is a speech given to what group?
(a) The Newspaper Association of America.
(b) Sarah Lawrence College.
(c) Amnesty International.
(d) ArtTable.

4. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?
(a) The past.
(b) Religion.
(c) Literature.
(d) Science.

5. Which of the following is a key characteristic of globalism, according to Morrison?
(a) Celebration of diversity.
(b) Unity among workers.
(c) Creating world peace.
(d) The Americanization of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison's central claim is that women should not do what?

2. According to Morrison, identifying the race of a subject can have what unintended consequence?

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

4. Morrison begins "Moral Inhabitants" with a list of what Colonial import and export items?

5. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison tells the anecdote about Antigone in Haiti to illustrate what point?

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