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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. 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"?
(a) Chrystos.
(b) Mitsuye Yamada.
(c) Barbara Smith.
(d) Maxine Hong Kingston.

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

3. "Light was _________," according to the narrator in "La Guera."
(a) Right.
(b) Hate.
(c) Truth.
(d) Wrong.

4. Where does the narrator of "Wonder Woman" reflect about other women doing the same things as she does?
(a) Mekong.
(b) Ning.
(c) Beipan.
(d) Yangtze.

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) "Aiiieeeee!"
(b) "Voices Wandered: An Anthology of Poetry Art by Asian American Youth."
(c) "Topography of War."
(d) "Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?

2. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?

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

4. Who wrote "The Brown Menace/Poem to the Survival of Roaches"?

5. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?

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