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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 "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?
(a) If they notice her the way she notices them.
(b) If they share her dreams.
(c) If they wish to be someone else.
(d) If they are afraid of who they are.

2. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?
(a) She was attacked by a dog.
(b) She broke her leg.
(c) She split her lip open.
(d) She fell off of a roof.

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. Who wrote "When I Was Growing Up"?
(a) Rita Dove.
(b) Qui Jin.
(c) Nellie Wong.
(d) Phillis Wheatley.

5. What does the author who was quoted at the beginning of "La Guera" hope that women can make their own?
(a) Lives and experiences.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Society.
(d) Culture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did the subject from "on not bein" marry?

3. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?

4. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?

5. According to the author of "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman," what do "we" do when we put "acts of God" on an equal playing field with man?

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