The Source of Self-Regard Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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The Source of Self-Regard Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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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 "Arts Advocacy," Morrison recounts discovering that a highly regarded artist vetoed funding for another artist for what reason?
(a) He knew that the other artist's work would sell better if the public saw him "struggling."
(b) He was jealous of the other artist's possible success.
(c) He thought that having a secure income would ruin the other artist's work.
(d) He found the other artist's work too controversial.

2. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?
(a) In segregated private schools in New York.
(b) In desegregated private schools throughout America.
(c) In public schools in Florida that were suddenly segregated while she was a student.
(d) In public schools in Ohio that had never been segregated.

3. What does Morrison praise the National Endowment for the Arts for in "The Individual Artist"?
(a) Funding art that everyone agrees is worthwhile.
(b) Taking risks on individual artists.
(c) Avoiding controversy.
(d) Encouraging patriotism in the arts.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," what does Morrison call the "ghost in the machine"?

5. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what does Morrison blame for diminishing our desire to care for others in modern times?

(see the answer key)

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