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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. "We are women from all kinds of ____________________ streets." This statement is taken from Moraga's "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism."
(a) Violent.
(b) Mixed.
(c) Determined.
(d) Childhood.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?

2. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?

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

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

5. Who wrote "When I Was Growing Up"?

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