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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) Culture.
(b) Society.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Lives and experiences.

2. What "problem" is addressed in the first section of the book?
(a) Success problem.
(b) Writing problem.
(c) Gender problem.
(d) Color problem.

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

4. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?
(a) School children.
(b) Sirens.
(c) Gun fire.
(d) Owls.

5. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?
(a) Merlin Stone.
(b) Cherrie Moraga.
(c) Donna Rushin.
(d) Toni Bambara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?

2. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?

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

4. How old was the narrator's mother when she was the main support of her family? ("La Guera")

5. In what year did the mother of the author of "La Guera" marry the writer's father?

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