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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is quoted at the beginning of "Children Passing in the Streets" as saying, "I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes"?
(a) Maxine Hong Kingston.
(b) Barbara Smith.
(c) Mitsuye Yamada.
(d) Chrystos.

2. How old was the narrator's mother when she was the main support of her family? ("La Guera")
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

3. Between what two things does Chrystos believe that women of color must make a choice?
(a) Ethnicity and womanhood.
(b) Culture and Americanism.
(c) Love of place and love of self.
(d) Womanhood and motherhood.

4. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?
(a) Finnish.
(b) American.
(c) Irish.
(d) British.

5. "We are women from all kinds of ____________________ streets." This statement is taken from Moraga's "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism."
(a) Mixed.
(b) Determined.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Violent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mirtha Quintanales claims that there is no such thing as __________.

2. What is no black person in this country surprised about? (Smith/Smith dialogue)

3. "Light was _________," according to the narrator in "La Guera."

4. In what year did the mother of the author of "La Guera" marry the writer's father?

5. What does the author who was quoted at the beginning of "La Guera" hope that women can make their own?

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