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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. What does the author who was quoted at the beginning of "La Guera" hope that women can make their own?
(a) Society.
(b) Culture.
(c) Lives and experiences.
(d) Tradition.

2. Why was the author of "La Guera" pulled out of school at the ages of five, seven, nine, and eleven?
(a) To work in a factory.
(b) To work in a silk factory.
(c) To take care of her ailing mother.
(d) To work in the fields.

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

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

5. Who wrote "Wonder Woman"?
(a) Kat Long.
(b) Hattie Gossett.
(c) Kim Chernin.
(d) Genny Lim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "la guera" mean?

2. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?

3. What taught Cherrie Moraga that "we are not human beings"?

4. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?

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."

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