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

2. 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 split her lip open.
(c) She broke her leg.
(d) She fell off of a roof.

3. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?
(a) Blackberries.
(b) Pillows.
(c) Hershey's kisses.
(d) Needles.

4. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?
(a) Sandy Boucher.
(b) Marilyn French.
(c) Ntozake Shange.
(d) Marleen Barr.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?

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. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?

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."

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

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