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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is no black person in this country surprised about? (Smith/Smith dialogue)
(a) Education.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Racism.

2. What drives Barbara Smith crazy, according to the "Sister-to-Sister Dialogue"?
(a) Life not being fair.
(b) Black women taking steretypical jobs.
(c) White women choosing not to finish school.
(d) Women being taken for granted.

3. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?
(a) For their success in following the rules of white society.
(b) For their rigidity following mainstream thought.
(c) For their fair skin.
(d) For their success in school.

4. Why does Beverly Smith get "so frustrated"?
(a) Life should not be lived in fear.
(b) She feels people don't understand where she came from.
(c) The movement is not moving fast enough.
(d) Hate should not exist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Even though we go hungry we are not impoverished of ________________." ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")

2. What humorous answer does Barbara Smith give to the following question that her sister poses to her: "Is there any oppression that women experience that is that total, in other words literally affects their physical well-being on a day to day basis?

3. Who was Malintzin's lover?

4. Rosario Morales claims that color and class do not define what two things?

5. What does Hattie Gossett claim nobody cares about in the '80s?

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