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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. Where did the author of "La Guera's" mother work while lying about her age?
(a) A factory.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) A racetrack.
(d) A sandwich shop.

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

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

4. What does the author want to make changes in, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?
(a) Society as a whole.
(b) Man made disasters.
(c) Her family.
(d) Personal culture.

5. What must one do to become visible, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?
(a) Be honored by our culture.
(b) Refuse to separate the actor from thier actions.
(c) Succeed in the face of society.
(d) Trust in ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was the narrator's mother when she was the main support of her family? ("La Guera")

3. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?

4. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?

5. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?

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