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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. Who is quoted at the beginning of "La Guera"?
(a) Judith Wright.
(b) Susan Howe.
(c) May Swenson.
(d) Emma Goldman.

2. Who is quoted at the beginning of "Children Passing in the Streets" as saying, "I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes"?
(a) Chrystos.
(b) Mitsuye Yamada.
(c) Barbara Smith.
(d) Maxine Hong Kingston.

3. Where did the author of "La Guera's" mother work while lying about her age?
(a) A sandwich shop.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) A factory.
(d) A racetrack.

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

5. Where did the narrator of "I Am What I Am" get her English accent from?
(a) Sesame Street.
(b) Gospel Songs.
(c) The BBC.
(d) National Geographic Channel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?

3. Who wrote "La Guera"?

4. According to Audre Lorde, what must exist for liberation to exist?

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

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