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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. Where was the author of "La Guera"'s mother born?
(a) San Jose.
(b) Stockton.
(c) Santa Paula.
(d) Oakland.

2. According to Cheryl Clarke, how many different kinds of lesbians are there?
(a) There are two types of lesbians.
(b) There are four specific types of lesbians.
(c) There is not only one kind of lesbian.
(d) There is only one kind of lesbian.

3. Barbara Smith says there is no such thing as ___________________.
(a) An easy way to do things.
(b) A cure for racism.
(c) Non-racist.
(d) Simplicity in life.

4. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?
(a) Power.
(b) American.
(c) Entity.
(d) Feminist.

5. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Female.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "La Guera" written?

2. What does the narrator croon in "I Am What I Am"?

3. When was the first piece of Hattie Gossett's book "my soul looks back in wonder/wild wimmin don't get no blues" written?

4. Why does Rosario Morales carry a "pole 18 inches long"?

5. How does Doris Davenport write "women"?

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