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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom does Morrison address her remarks about the dead of September 11, 2001?
(a) To all Americans.
(b) To the terrorists responsible for the deaths.
(c) To the dead themselves.
(d) To the families of the dead.

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

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

5. In "Literature and Public Life," what does Morrison say shapes our understanding of community?
(a) Government propaganda.
(b) Literature from outside the canon.
(c) The media, especially television.
(d) Literature from the canon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.," what does Morrison say she wonders about MLK?

2. In "Race Matters," Morrison says that she refuses to write in what voice?

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

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

5. "The War Against Error" is a fifteenth and sixteenth century effort to eliminate what kind of error?

Short Essay Questions

1. In “Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.," what are the things that Morrison says Dr. King believed in?

2. In “A Race in Mind: The Press in Deed," how does Morrison connect the idea of "special interests" with the racial identification of subjects in news stories?

3. In “Moral Inhabitants," Morrison opens with some U.S. Census statistics. What are they and why does she include them?

4. In “The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations," why does Morrison say it is important for us to turn our attention to the future?

5. According to Morrison's “Women, Race, and Memory," what are the assumptions behind infighting among women?

6. In her "Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address,” how does Morrison define dreaming and why does she think it is important?

7. In “Race Matters," what story does Morrison tell about the ending of Beloved, and why does she tell this story?

8. In “The Habit of Art," why does Morrison allude to Antigone?

9. In “The Individual Artist," what does Morrison say is the unique value of the National Endowment for the Arts?

10. In “The Foreigner’s Home,” what point is Morrison making with her discussion of The Radiance of the King?

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