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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. What does Morrison say is a key reason for Western projections onto Africa?
(a) Africa's poverty.
(b) The persecution of indigenous Africans.
(c) Western ignorance about Africa.
(d) Missionaries' quest to Christianize Africa.

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

3. In "Moral Inhabitants," what is the list of American leaders meant to demonstrate?
(a) Great leaders are "ahead of their time."
(b) Great leaders are born, not made.
(c) Slavery was a violent and degrading institution.
(d) History only shows us one side of these leaders.

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

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

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. What is it that Morrison says distinguishes globalism from previous movements?

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

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?

5. Where does Morrison say we erroneously turn for answers to contemporary social problems?

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