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

2. In "The Individual Artist," what does Morrison find interesting about the feud between literary critics from different schools of criticism?
(a) There seems to be no place for the artist in the argument.
(b) It has been covered in the Times Literary Supplement.
(c) Structuralists see the work as a dynamic interaction between reader and text.
(d) Black authors are being centered in the canon for the first time.

3. Morrison compares the Africa of the Western imagination to what legendary monster?
(a) Medusa.
(b) The Sphinx.
(c) Leviathan.
(d) Grendel.

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?
(a) An impractical luxury we cannot afford in modern times.
(b) Deliberate imagining that creates intimacy with the Other.
(c) A meditative state that improves the creative capacity of the Self.
(d) Wasted time engaged in wishful thinking.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?

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

5. Which of the following is a key characteristic of globalism, according to Morrison?

(see the answer key)

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