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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) Aaliyah Haughton.
(b) Martha Georga.
(c) Naomi Littlebear.
(d) Sarah James.

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

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

4. Who did the subject from "on not bein" marry?
(a) The man who took her virginity.
(b) Her parent's choice of husband.
(c) The first man to ask her.
(d) A man who made her parents mad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator of "I Am What I Am" get her English accent from?

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

3. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?

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

5. What does the narrator croon in "I Am What I Am"?

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