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

2. According to "Harlem on My Mind," almost 28 years after the "Harlem" exhibit, the Guggenheim museum did what?
(a) Devoted an entire exhibition to Romare Bearden.
(b) Excluded Black artists from a major retrospective exhibition.
(c) Mounted an exhibition more concerned with Black politics than art.
(d) Focused on the question of what makes Black art Black.

3. In "The Habit of Art," Morrison tells the anecdote about Antigone in Haiti to illustrate what point?
(a) Art has real-world power.
(b) Dictators try to crush artistic expression.
(c) Acting in a play is therapeutic.
(d) Ancient Greek works are still relevant today.

4. What does Morrison praise the National Endowment for the Arts for in "The Individual Artist"?
(a) Taking risks on individual artists.
(b) Avoiding controversy.
(c) Encouraging patriotism in the arts.
(d) Funding art that everyone agrees is worthwhile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Morrison address her remarks about the dead of September 11, 2001?

2. In "A Race in Mind," Morrison asks for more thoughtful work from what group?

3. The Radiance of the King is a novel by Camara Laye, an author of what origin?

4. According to "Harlem on My Mind," why did the 1969 exhibit by the same name fail?

5. 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?

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