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

2. Who wrote "on not bein"?
(a) Imamu Amiri Baraka.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Mary Hope Lee.
(d) Ai.

3. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?
(a) She was attacked by a dog.
(b) She fell off of a roof.
(c) She broke her leg.
(d) She split her lip open.

4. What does the narrator croon in "I Am What I Am"?
(a) Rafael Ithier poetry.
(b) Skitzo rap.
(c) Carlos Gardel tangoes.
(d) Jorge Arraiza songs.

5. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?
(a) Ekaterina Sedia.
(b) Rita M. Gross.
(c) Erica Jong.
(d) Cherrie Moraga.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she is in "I Am What I Am"?

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

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

4. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?

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

(see the answer key)

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