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

2. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?
(a) White.
(b) Famous.
(c) Rich.
(d) Black.

3. According to Judit Moschkovich, what happens when a person denies who they are, where they come from, and how they feel?
(a) They end up hating themselves.
(b) They assimilate to the societal constant.
(c) They fail to find a place for themselves.
(d) They become hardened against others.

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

5. Where was the author of "La Guera"'s mother born?
(a) Stockton.
(b) Oakland.
(c) Santa Paula.
(d) San Jose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "la guera" mean?

2. Who wrote "The Brown Menace/Poem to the Survival of Roaches"?

3. 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"?

4. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?

5. "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."

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