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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You: Racism in the Women's Movement.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Latin American culture dominated by as related in "But I know You, American Woman"?
(a) Native American culture.
(b) European culture.
(c) American mass culture.
(d) Spanish culture.

3. Between what two things does Chrystos believe that women of color must make a choice?
(a) Womanhood and motherhood.
(b) Culture and Americanism.
(c) Love of place and love of self.
(d) Ethnicity and womanhood.

4. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?
(a) "Martinique's Song."
(b) "Poetic Voices."
(c) "Nappy Edges."
(d) "Dark Voices."

5. How does Doris Davenport write "women"?
(a) Wymin.
(b) Wimmin.
(c) Wymyn.
(d) Whimmyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote out the checks for the author's mother when she was at the grocery store? ("La Guera")

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

3. Who wrote "on not bein"?

4. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?

5. Who wrote "It's In My Blood, My Face- My mother's Voice, The Way I Sweat"?

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