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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 the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," where does the old woman say the answer to the children's question is?
(a) In their hearts.
(b) In their hands.
(c) In her eyes.
(d) She doesn't actually answer their question.

2. In the story that opens "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," what do the children ask the old woman about?
(a) A bird.
(b) A baby.
(c) Death.
(d) Love.

3. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison praises the artist Toby Lewis for what?
(a) Disrupting the status quo with her provocative work.
(b) Taking on the perspective of the "other."
(c) Creating great religious art.
(d) Placing art in public workplaces.

4. In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," What does Morrison refer to with the phrase "tongue-suicide"?
(a) Lying.
(b) The death of language.
(c) A refusal to speak for what is right.
(d) The willingness to ban and destroy books.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," what does Morrison call the "ghost in the machine"?

2. In "Cinderella's Stepsisters," Morrison's central claim is that women should not do what?

3. In "The Future of Time," what does Morrison say it seems like "the future" means to people today?

4. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison blames what group for the oppression of women?

5. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," Morrison compares money to what?

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