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

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

3. According to the introduction, for whom do Third World women put themselves on the line for?
(a) Their homelands.
(b) Their parents.
(c) Their darker sisters.
(d) Their selves.

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

5. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?
(a) "Dark Voices."
(b) "Nappy Edges."
(c) "Poetic Voices."
(d) "Martinique's Song."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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