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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 "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) Sarah James.
(b) Aaliyah Haughton.
(c) Naomi Littlebear.
(d) Martha Georga.

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

3. Where did the narrator of "I Am What I Am" get her English accent from?
(a) National Geographic Channel.
(b) The BBC.
(c) Gospel Songs.
(d) Sesame Street.

4. "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."
(a) Childhood.
(b) Violent.
(c) Determined.
(d) Mixed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?

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

4. Who did the subject from "on not bein" marry?

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

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