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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Part I--The Foreigner’s Home, including the essays “Harlem on My Mind: Contesting Memory--Meditation on Museums, Culture, and Integration” through “The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations”.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?
(a) "What will we think during those longer, healthier lives?"
(b) "We are being bullied into understanding."
(c) "Art is temporal."
(d) "The future is already catastrophe."

3. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison says that we must use freedom to do what?
(a) Educate ourselves.
(b) Create art.
(c) Overthrow corrupt institutions.
(d) Free others.

4. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what does Morrison blame for diminishing our desire to care for others in modern times?
(a) Our fear of the movement of people across borders.
(b) The rise of fascism in Western democracies.
(c) The rise of non-governmental organizations.
(d) Widespread poverty in our own country.

5. In "The Future of Time," Morrison worries that we increasingly turn to the past for what?
(a) Answers to current problems.
(b) Evidence to confirm our biases.
(c) Visions of what our future could be.
(d) Philosophical wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "Arts Advocacy," Morrison recounts discovering that a highly regarded artist vetoed funding for another artist for what reason?

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

4. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison opens by joking that because she was once a student at the place she is now speaking, what might happen after her speech?

5. What question does Morrison say is at the center of of government?

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