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

2. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?
(a) April.
(b) October.
(c) February.
(d) December.

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 was attacked by a dog.
(d) She fell off of a roof.

4. What does the narrator croon in "I Am What I Am"?
(a) Rafael Ithier poetry.
(b) Skitzo rap.
(c) Jorge Arraiza songs.
(d) Carlos Gardel tangoes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the introduction, for whom do Third World women put themselves on the line for?

2. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?

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

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

5. 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"?

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