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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) Dickens.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

2. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?
(a) If she is happy.
(b) If she is an alcholic.
(c) If she is content.
(d) If she is afraid.

3. What kind of crisis does Hattie Gossett claim there is at the time of her book's release?
(a) National employment crisis.
(b) National literacy crisis.
(c) World-wide employment crisis.
(d) World-wide literacy crisis.

4. "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) Childhood.
(b) Mixed.
(c) Determined.
(d) Violent.

5. When was "La Guera" written?
(a) October, 1963.
(b) July, 1956.
(c) September, 1979.
(d) January, 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is no black person in this country surprised about? (Smith/Smith dialogue)

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

3. How many months did it take for Hattie Gossett to edit her book "my soul looks back in wonder/wild wimmin don't get no blues" written?

4. Who wrote out the checks for the author's mother when she was at the grocery store? ("La Guera")

5. In Cheryl Clarke's mind, what does "take care of us" equal?

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