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

2. According to the introduction, for whom do Third World women put themselves on the line for?
(a) Their selves.
(b) Their homelands.
(c) Their darker sisters.
(d) Their parents.

3. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Flordia.
(d) South Carolina.

4. In "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?
(a) If they share her dreams.
(b) If they are afraid of who they are.
(c) If they notice her the way she notices them.
(d) If they wish to be someone else.

5. 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) Maxine Hong Kingston.
(c) Mitsuye Yamada.
(d) Barbara Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who confided in Cherrie Moraga that he felt she didn't trust him because he was a male?

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

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

4. Where did the author of "La Guera's" mother work while lying about her age?

5. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?

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