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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Part I--The Foreigner’s Home, including the essays “Moral Inhabitants” through “The Slavebody and the Blackbody”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Morrison begins "Moral Inhabitants" with a list of what Colonial import and export items?
(a) Guns.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Bibles and other religious tracts.
(d) Indentured servants.

2. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?
(a) Development.
(b) Ideology.
(c) Marketing.
(d) Foreignness.

3. What question does Morrison say is at the center of of government?
(a) Cultural apartheid or integration.
(b) Control over history's narrative.
(c) Distribution of wealth.
(d) Creating peace and security.

4. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?
(a) European.
(b) Asian.
(c) African.
(d) North American.

5. 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?
(a) The erasure of the line between public and private.
(b) Corporate control of formerly public spaces.
(c) Its division of people into "center" and "margin."
(d) The boundless creation of wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?

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

3. Morrison compares the Africa of the Western imagination to what legendary monster?

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

5. 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?

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