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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You: Racism in the Women's Movement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?
(a) She was attacked by a dog.
(b) She broke her leg.
(c) She split her lip open.
(d) She fell off of a roof.

2. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?
(a) Owls.
(b) Sirens.
(c) School children.
(d) Gun fire.

3. According to the introduction of "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You: Racism in the Women's Movement," women of color are veterans of____________.
(a) Diminished self-worth.
(b) Supremacist ideals.
(c) Class and color war.
(d) Objectivity.

4. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?
(a) Feminist.
(b) American.
(c) Entity.
(d) Power.

5. Why does Rosario Morales carry a "pole 18 inches long"?
(a) To protect herself from right-winged feminists.
(b) To protect herself from 13-89 year old men.
(c) To protect herself from America.
(d) To maintain her right to be proud of her culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?

2. According to Doris Davenport, what is the cause of racism in white feminists?

3. Why was the author of "La Guera" pulled out of school at the ages of five, seven, nine, and eleven?

4. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?

5. According to Judit Moschkovich, where is a great deal of information on Latin American available?

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