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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 taught Cherrie Moraga that "we are not human beings"?
(a) Her Chicana heritage.
(b) Her lesbianism.
(c) Her failure in school.
(d) Her oppression for being female.

2. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?
(a) White.
(b) Famous.
(c) Black.
(d) Rich.

3. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?
(a) Ntozake Shange.
(b) Marilyn French.
(c) Marleen Barr.
(d) Sandy Boucher.

4. 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 a silk factory.
(c) To work in the fields.
(d) To work in a factory.

5. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Arthur Miller.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is quoted at the beginning of "La Guera"?

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

3. When was "La Guera" written?

4. Who wrote "Wonder Woman"?

5. Who wrote "on not bein"?

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