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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. In what year did the mother of the author of "La Guera" marry the writer's father?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1969.

2. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?
(a) Men.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Parents.
(d) Childhoods.

3. Who wrote "on not bein"?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Ai.
(c) Imamu Amiri Baraka.
(d) Mary Hope Lee.

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

5. Why was the author of "La Guera" pulled out of school at the ages of five, seven, nine, and eleven?
(a) To work in a factory.
(b) To work in the fields.
(c) To work in a silk factory.
(d) To take care of her ailing mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote "Wonder Woman"?

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

5. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?

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