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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 did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?
(a) White.
(b) Rich.
(c) Black.
(d) Famous.

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

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

4. Who wrote "It's In My Blood, My Face- My mother's Voice, The Way I Sweat"?
(a) Shirley Chisholm.
(b) Evelyn Cunningham.
(c) Anita Valerio.
(d) Clare Boothe Luce.

5. Who wrote "The Brown Menace/Poem to the Survival of Roaches"?
(a) Gayl Jones.
(b) Audre Lorde.
(c) Tee Corinne.
(d) Hattie Gossett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "la guera" mean?

2. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?

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

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

5. When was "La Guera" written?

(see the answer key)

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