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

2. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?
(a) The easy manipulation of well-educated people by supposedly uneducated people.
(b) Generosity towards the vulnerable turning to violence as soon as the vulnerable try to advocate for themselves.
(c) Creative imagination being limited by our own wealth and power.
(d) The desire of wealthy Americans to spread a culture that other nations cannot afford.

3. What is one of the consequences that Morrison blames on minstrelsy?
(a) The debasement of language.
(b) Racism.
(c) Class warfare.
(d) The centering of African American culture.

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

5. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?
(a) To compare the conquerors with the average citizen today.
(b) To illustrate the bloody history of wealth accumulation.
(c) To question her audience's understanding of history.
(d) To argue that history will always be cruel and inhumane.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?

2. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?

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

4. What does Morrison say is a key reason for Western projections onto Africa?

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

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