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

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

3. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?
(a) Gun fire.
(b) Sirens.
(c) School children.
(d) Owls.

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

5. What does the narrator say she is in "I Am What I Am"?
(a) A Mexican.
(b) An African American.
(c) A Spaniard.
(d) A U.S. American.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote "When I Was Growing Up"?

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

4. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?

5. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?

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