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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 was the name of the anthology that the author of "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman" taught for a segment of Ethnic American Literature?
(a) "Topography of War."
(b) "Aiiieeeee!"
(c) "Voices Wandered: An Anthology of Poetry Art by Asian American Youth."
(d) "Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings."

2. How old was the narrator's mother when she was the main support of her family? ("La Guera")
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 18.
(d) 16.

3. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?
(a) Entity.
(b) Feminist.
(c) Power.
(d) American.

4. Of what race is Gloria?
(a) Chicana.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Indian.
(d) African American.

5. According to Cherrie Moraga, what does lesbianism equal in "this country"?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Misunderstanding.
(c) Second-class citizenship.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?

2. What must one do to become visible, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?

3. Who wrote out the checks for the author's mother when she was at the grocery store? ("La Guera")

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

5. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?

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