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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 the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?
(a) Blackberries.
(b) Pillows.
(c) Hershey's kisses.
(d) Needles.

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

3. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?
(a) Female.
(b) Black.
(c) Spanish.
(d) White.

4. Of what race is Gloria?
(a) Indian.
(b) Spanish.
(c) African American.
(d) Chicana.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?

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

3. 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"?

4. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?

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

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