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

2. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?
(a) Rita M. Gross.
(b) Cherrie Moraga.
(c) Ekaterina Sedia.
(d) Erica Jong.

3. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?
(a) Donna Rushin.
(b) Merlin Stone.
(c) Cherrie Moraga.
(d) Toni Bambara.

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

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"?
(a) Mitsuye Yamada.
(b) Chrystos.
(c) Maxine Hong Kingston.
(d) Barbara Smith.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?

5. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?

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