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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. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) Martha Georga.
(b) Naomi Littlebear.
(c) Aaliyah Haughton.
(d) Sarah James.

2. What does Hattie Gossett claim nobody cares about in the '80s?
(a) Giving back to society.
(b) Writing.
(c) Living morally.
(d) Black folks.

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

4. Between what two things does Chrystos believe that women of color must make a choice?
(a) Culture and Americanism.
(b) Love of place and love of self.
(c) Womanhood and motherhood.
(d) Ethnicity and womanhood.

5. What does NWSA stand for?
(a) National White Studies Agendas.
(b) Not Willing to Say Anything.
(c) Need Women Saying All.
(d) National Women's Studies Association.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cheryl Clarke believe to be the real enemy to lesbians?

2. Why does Nellie Wong claim that "you" (a writer/her) will not stop working and writing?

3. Who wrote "Wonder Woman"?

4. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?

5. Where does the narrator of "Wonder Woman" reflect about other women doing the same things as she does?

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