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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. What does "la guera" mean?
(a) Fair-skinned.
(b) White.
(c) Dark-skinned.
(d) Black.

2. Who did the subject from "on not bein" marry?
(a) The first man to ask her.
(b) The man who took her virginity.
(c) A man who made her parents mad.
(d) Her parent's choice of husband.

3. What does the author want to make changes in, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?
(a) Man made disasters.
(b) Her family.
(c) Personal culture.
(d) Society as a whole.

4. According to Barbara Smith, what book did African American students have a hard time believing was about "white people"?
(a) "The Sound and the Fury."
(b) "Diasy Miller."
(c) "The Grapes of Wrath."
(d) "Invisible Man."

5. According the Doris Davenport, why is the feminist movement racist?
(a) White women.
(b) Misogyny.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Failure to accept all women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Latin American culture dominated by as related in "But I know You, American Woman"?

2. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?

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

4. What was the name of the anthology that the author of "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman" taught for a segment of Ethnic American Literature?

5. What does NWSA stand for?

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