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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 wrote "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) Martha Georga.
(b) Aaliyah Haughton.
(c) Sarah James.
(d) Naomi Littlebear.

2. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?
(a) British.
(b) Irish.
(c) American.
(d) Finnish.

3. In what year did the mother of the author of "La Guera" marry the writer's father?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1970.

4. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?
(a) If she is content.
(b) If she is happy.
(c) If she is an alcholic.
(d) If she is afraid.

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

Short Answer 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"?

2. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?

3. Where was the author of "La Guera"'s mother born?

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

5. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?

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