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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. According to a reference to another author in "La Guera," where must one look to find the dream?
(a) The inner self.
(b) The nightmare.
(c) The ego.
(d) To the past.

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

3. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?
(a) American.
(b) British.
(c) Finnish.
(d) Irish.

4. According to the introduction, for whom do Third World women put themselves on the line for?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Their darker sisters.
(c) Their homelands.
(d) Their selves.

5. Why does Rosario Morales carry a "pole 18 inches long"?
(a) To protect herself from 13-89 year old men.
(b) To protect herself from America.
(c) To maintain her right to be proud of her culture.
(d) To protect herself from right-winged feminists.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?

2. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?

3. "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."

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

5. Who confided in Cherrie Moraga that he felt she didn't trust him because he was a male?

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