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

2. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?
(a) Rich.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Famous.

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

4. "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) Mixed.
(b) Violent.
(c) Determined.
(d) Childhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?

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

5. Of what race is Gloria?

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