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

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 was attacked by a dog.
(c) She broke her leg.
(d) She split her lip open.

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

4. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Virginia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Flordia.

5. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?
(a) Patricia Smith.
(b) Rosario Morales.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Lynne Hanley.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator croon in "I Am What I Am"?

3. 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"?

4. Of what race is Gloria?

5. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?

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