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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 does "braceros" mean?
(a) Enslaved.
(b) White-skins.
(c) Wet-backs.
(d) Oppressed.

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

3. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?
(a) For their fair skin.
(b) For their success in school.
(c) For their rigidity following mainstream thought.
(d) For their success in following the rules of white society.

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

5. According to a reference to another author in "La Guera," where must one look to find the dream?
(a) The inner self.
(b) To the past.
(c) The nightmare.
(d) The ego.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?

2. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?

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

4. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?

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

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