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

2. What does the author who was quoted at the beginning of "La Guera" hope that women can make their own?
(a) Tradition.
(b) Society.
(c) Culture.
(d) Lives and experiences.

3. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?
(a) "Poetic Voices."
(b) "Nappy Edges."
(c) "Dark Voices."
(d) "Martinique's Song."

4. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?
(a) Patricia Smith.
(b) Lynne Hanley.
(c) Rosario Morales.
(d) Toni Morrison.

5. Who confided in Cherrie Moraga that he felt she didn't trust him because he was a male?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her college mentor.
(c) Her brother.
(d) A gay friend.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was the author of "La Guera" pulled out of school at the ages of five, seven, nine, and eleven?

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

4. "Women who must sell _________________ for pennies a day" is a quote from "Wonder Woman."

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

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