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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. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her dog.

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

3. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?
(a) She split her lip open.
(b) She broke her leg.
(c) She fell off of a roof.
(d) She was attacked by a dog.

4. What "problem" is addressed in the first section of the book?
(a) Success problem.
(b) Gender problem.
(c) Writing problem.
(d) Color problem.

5. Who did the subject from "on not bein" marry?
(a) Her parent's choice of husband.
(b) The first man to ask her.
(c) The man who took her virginity.
(d) A man who made her parents mad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?

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. Who wrote "on not bein"?

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

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

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