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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Between the Lines: On Culture, Class and Homophobia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?
(a) Childhoods.
(b) Parents.
(c) Men.
(d) Theorists.

2. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?
(a) Famous.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Rich.

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

4. "All our saints have a few taints of _________," according to "Millicent Fredericks."
(a) Blood.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Sin.

5. To what does Rosario Morales compare "protective coloring in racist fields"?
(a) Cabbage.
(b) Carrots.
(c) Shrubs.
(d) Weeds.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Merle Woo's letter written to? (January, 1980)

2. Where did the author of "La Guera's" mother work while lying about her age?

3. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?

4. 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"?

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

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