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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. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that the public interest has been redefined as what?
(a) Class warfare.
(b) Special interests.
(c) Private interest.
(d) Extremism.
2. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison uses the phrase "internecine conflict." In context, this phrase means what?
(a) A philosophical difference that divides a group.
(b) Hostility between the classes.
(c) A conflict that hurts both sides.
(d) Conflict between women.
3. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison relates an anecdote about which historical figure?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(d) Mary Shelly.
4. What does Morrison praise the National Endowment for the Arts for in "The Individual Artist"?
(a) Funding art that everyone agrees is worthwhile.
(b) Encouraging patriotism in the arts.
(c) Taking risks on individual artists.
(d) Avoiding controversy.
5. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," What does Morrison refer to with the phrase "tongue-suicide"?
(a) The death of language.
(b) Lying.
(c) A refusal to speak for what is right.
(d) The willingness to ban and destroy books.
Short Answer Questions
1. What question does Morrison say is at the center of of government?
2. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison says that when you hate you become what?
3. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," what irony is Morrison's discussion of "Feed the Children" campaigns intended to illustrate?
4. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address," Morrison defines "dreaming" as what?
5. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," what do the children ask the old woman about?
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