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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) The persecution of indigenous Africans.
(b) Africa's poverty.
(c) Missionaries' quest to Christianize Africa.
(d) Western ignorance about Africa.

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

3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that she is willing to talk about typical graduation topics like the future, responsibility, and goodness, but not what?
(a) Success.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Humility.

4. According to Morrison, globalism creates a fear of what?
(a) Development.
(b) Marketing.
(c) Ideology.
(d) Foreignness.

5. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?
(a) A mistress.
(b) Television.
(c) Slavery.
(d) An art critic.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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?

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