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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Between the Lines: On Culture, Class and Homophobia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mirtha Quintanales claims that there is no such thing as __________.
(a) A melting pot.
(b) Racism.
(c) Community.
(d) Honesty.

2. "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."
(a) Mixed.
(b) Determined.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Violent.

3. What word have feminists "had it with"?
(a) Equality.
(b) Balance.
(c) Outreach.
(d) Culturalism.

4. According to Barbara Smith, what does one woman state as the reason for not watching television?
(a) She is afraid of the news.
(b) She is an intellectual.
(c) She wants to live in reality, and television is fiction.
(d) Television gives such a twisted interpretation of life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cheryl Clarke, of whom are black women envious?

2. According to Judit Moschkovich, what happens when a person denies who they are, where they come from, and how they feel?

3. What happened on August 6, 1941, just four days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

4. According to the footnotes for Jo Carrillo's poem "Beyond the Cliffs of Abiquiu," to what land is the poem dedicated?

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

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