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

2. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?
(a) Dickens.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) Arthur Miller.

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

4. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?
(a) Men.
(b) Childhoods.
(c) Theorists.
(d) Parents.

5. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?
(a) American.
(b) Power.
(c) Feminist.
(d) Entity.

Short Answer 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."

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

3. What "problem" is addressed in the first section of the book?

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

5. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?

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