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

2. According to Doris Davenport, what is wrong with the word "racism"?
(a) Too general and simplistic.
(b) Too specific.
(c) Too much incorrect history.
(d) Too accepted.

3. What does Chrystos declare that she is afraid of in "I Don't Understand Those Who Have Turned Away From Me"?
(a) Indians.
(b) White people.
(c) Her own culture.
(d) Men.

4. According to Judit Moschkovich, where is a great deal of information on Latin American available?
(a) On-line.
(b) Feminist writings.
(c) Cultural studies courses.
(d) Libraries.

5. "All our saints have a few taints of _________," according to "Millicent Fredericks."
(a) Blood.
(b) Sin.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Humanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author who was quoted at the beginning of "La Guera" hope that women can make their own?

2. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?

3. What does "braceros" mean?

4. From the poem "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You," what do "white sisters" love to own?

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

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