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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. According to Morrison, how does fascism arise?
(a) By insisting that all people be treated identically.
(b) As a series of small, orderly steps.
(c) When minority groups gain power over the majority.
(d) With sudden revolution.

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

3. Morrison's reading of fiction about Africa written by non-African writers reminded her of what part of her childhood?
(a) When the church collection plate was passed to raise money for Africa.
(b) The first time she was called a racial epithet.
(c) Her own immigration to America from Ghana.
(d) When she struggled to understand a movie set in Asia.

4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that one of her aims is to do what?
(a) Provoke.
(b) Reassure.
(c) Remember.
(d) Criticize.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison say is at its greatest height since the time of the slave trade?

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

3. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," when Morrison suggests that writing about slavery cuts away at the scar tissue the blackbody uses to hide the slavebody, what technique is she using?

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

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

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