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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did the subject from "on not bein" marry?
(a) The first man to ask her.
(b) The man who took her virginity.
(c) A man who made her parents mad.
(d) Her parent's choice of husband.

2. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Flordia.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Virginia.

3. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?
(a) Cherrie Moraga.
(b) Rita M. Gross.
(c) Erica Jong.
(d) Ekaterina Sedia.

4. Of what race is Gloria?
(a) Chicana.
(b) Indian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) African American.

5. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?
(a) Marilyn French.
(b) Marleen Barr.
(c) Sandy Boucher.
(d) Ntozake Shange.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?

2. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?

3. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?

4. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?

5. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?

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