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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Entering the Lives of Others: Theory in the Flesh.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the author of "La Guera"'s mother born?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Santa Paula.
(c) Stockton.
(d) San Jose.

2. 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) Power.
(d) Entity.

3. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?
(a) December.
(b) October.
(c) February.
(d) April.

4. "Women who must sell _________________ for pennies a day" is a quote from "Wonder Woman."
(a) Themselves.
(b) Their children.
(c) Their own garden items.
(d) Shrimps.

5. Who wrote "When I Was Growing Up"?
(a) Phillis Wheatley.
(b) Nellie Wong.
(c) Qui Jin.
(d) Rita Dove.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does "la guera" mean?

3. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?

4. How old was the narrator's mother when she was the main support of her family? ("La Guera")

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

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