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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Entering the Lives of Others: Theory in the Flesh.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to a reference to another author in "La Guera," where must one look to find the dream?
(a) To the past.
(b) The nightmare.
(c) The ego.
(d) The inner self.

2. Who is quoted at the beginning of "La Guera"?
(a) Judith Wright.
(b) Emma Goldman.
(c) Susan Howe.
(d) May Swenson.

3. Who wrote "Wonder Woman"?
(a) Genny Lim.
(b) Kim Chernin.
(c) Hattie Gossett.
(d) Kat Long.

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

5. In what year did the mother of the author of "La Guera" marry the writer's father?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1948.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?

2. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?

3. What taught Cherrie Moraga that "we are not human beings"?

4. What does "la guera" mean?

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

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