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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 state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Flordia.

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

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

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

5. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?
(a) For their rigidity following mainstream thought.
(b) For their success in following the rules of white society.
(c) For their fair skin.
(d) For their success in school.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?

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

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

4. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?

5. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?

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