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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say she is in "I Am What I Am"?
(a) A Mexican.
(b) An African American.
(c) A U.S. American.
(d) A Spaniard.

3. Of what race is Gloria?
(a) Chicana.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Indian.
(d) African American.

4. Who wrote "When I Was Growing Up"?
(a) Qui Jin.
(b) Nellie Wong.
(c) Rita Dove.
(d) Phillis Wheatley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator of "I Am What I Am" get her English accent from?

2. 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"?

3. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?

4. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?

5. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?

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