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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. 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.

2. How does a woman who chooses to be a lesbian, according to Cheryl Clarke, live?
(a) In hiding.
(b) Dangerously.
(c) Openly.
(d) Submissively.

3. According to a reference to another author in "La Guera," where must one look to find the dream?
(a) The nightmare.
(b) The inner self.
(c) The ego.
(d) To the past.

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

5. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Lynne Hanley.
(c) Patricia Smith.
(d) Rosario Morales.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?

2. When was "La Guera" written?

3. According to Barbara Smith, what book did African American students have a hard time believing was about "white people"?

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

5. Between what two things does Chrystos believe that women of color must make a choice?

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