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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. Which of the following is a key characteristic of globalism, according to Morrison?
(a) Unity among workers.
(b) The Americanization of the world.
(c) Creating world peace.
(d) Celebration of diversity.

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

3. In "The Slavebody and the Blackbody," what does Morrison call the "ghost in the machine"?
(a) The blackbody.
(b) Poverty.
(c) The slavebody.
(d) Racism.

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

5. In "Women, Race, and Memory," Morrison divides women into three groups: feminists, anti-feminists, and whom?
(a) Radical socialists.
(b) Integrationists.
(c) Nonaligned humanists.
(d) Libertarians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Literature and Public Life," Morrison says that the public interest has been redefined as what?

3. What does Morrison say is a key reason for Western projections onto Africa?

4. In "The In "The Nobel Lecture in Literature," Morrison speculates about how much more knowledge we would have if scholarship was not held back by what?

5. In "The Future of Time," Morrison uses repetition of what phrase?

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