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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. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" see on sidewalks?
(a) Trash.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Torn photos.
(d) Bits of glass.

2. What does Chrystos declare that she is afraid of in "I Don't Understand Those Who Have Turned Away From Me"?
(a) Indians.
(b) White people.
(c) Men.
(d) Her own culture.

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

4. What does "braceros" mean?
(a) Enslaved.
(b) Oppressed.
(c) White-skins.
(d) Wet-backs.

5. What was the name of the anthology that the author of "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman" taught for a segment of Ethnic American Literature?
(a) "Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings."
(b) "Topography of War."
(c) "Voices Wandered: An Anthology of Poetry Art by Asian American Youth."
(d) "Aiiieeeee!"

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gabrielle Daniels claim is the only thing for which Millicent would rise?

2. "Even though we go hungry we are not impoverished of ________________." ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")

3. In "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?

4. Where does the narrator of "Wonder Woman" reflect about other women doing the same things as she does?

5. According to Audre Lorde, what must exist for liberation to exist?

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