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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. "Women who must sell _________________ for pennies a day" is a quote from "Wonder Woman."
(a) Shrimps.
(b) Their children.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Their own garden items.

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

3. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?
(a) Merlin Stone.
(b) Donna Rushin.
(c) Cherrie Moraga.
(d) Toni Bambara.

4. Who wrote "Wonder Woman"?
(a) Genny Lim.
(b) Kim Chernin.
(c) Hattie Gossett.
(d) Kat Long.

5. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?
(a) Marleen Barr.
(b) Sandy Boucher.
(c) Ntozake Shange.
(d) Marilyn French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "la guera" mean?

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

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

4. "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."

5. In "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?

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