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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Based on your reading of "Arts Advocacy," which statement would Morrison agree with?
2. Store displays arranged to look like the interiors of houses and the interiors of houses arranged to look like store displays is an example Morrison gives of which aspect of globalism?
3. In "The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," why does Morrison include a list of colonial conquests?
4. Which of the following is a key characteristic of globalism, according to Morrison?
5. Where did Morrison go to school as a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. In “Race Matters," what story does Morrison tell about the ending of Beloved, and why does she tell this story?
2. In “Women, Race, and Memory” how does Morrison describe the way "non-aligned" women are viewed by feminists and anti-feminists, and how do non-aligned women view them?
3. In “Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.," what are the things that Morrison says Dr. King believed in?
4. In “Wartalk,” how does Morrison say that globalization differs from colonialism and internationalism?
5. In “The Individual Artist," what does Morrison say is the unique value of the National Endowment for the Arts?
6. In “Black Matter(s)," what does Morrison mean by the term "Africanism"?
7. In “The Slavebody and the Blackbody,” how does Morrison differentiate between these two kinds of bodies, and why does she bother?
8. In “Racism and Fascism,” what does Morrison say are the characteristics of fascism?
9. in “The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care," what stages does Morrison trace the evolution of Western culture's attitude toward the accumulation of money?
10. In “The Dead of September 11,” Morrison alludes to a famous speech. What speech does she allude to and what is the purpose of this allusion?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, when he says, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here,” he is referring to the importance of his own speech versus the significance of the dead of the Battle of Gettysburg. Explain at least three similarities in tone and/or content to Morrison’s “The Dead of September 11.”
Essay Topic 2
In “The War on Error,” Morrison employs a conceit comparing governments to students. Explain how she develops this conceit and how it impacts an audience’s understanding of her central point in “The War on Error.”
Essay Topic 3
In "The Site of Memory," Morrison describes compromises that authors of slave narratives had to make in order to accomplish their goals. What were these compromises, what were the goals of slave narratives, and how did one make the other necessary?
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