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

2. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" see on sidewalks?
(a) Bits of glass.
(b) Trash.
(c) Torn photos.
(d) Flowers.

3. 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.

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

5. "We are women from all kinds of ____________________ streets." This statement is taken from Moraga's "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism."
(a) Childhood.
(b) Violent.
(c) Mixed.
(d) Determined.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Light was _________," according to the narrator in "La Guera."

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

3. When was "La Guera" written?

4. According to a reference to another author in "La Guera," where must one look to find the dream?

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"?

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