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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 out the checks for the author's mother when she was at the grocery store? ("La Guera")
(a) The cashier.
(b) The author.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her son.

2. What does Gloria Anzaldua say women of color cannot allow?
(a) Being hurt.
(b) Being made fun of.
(c) Being tokenized.
(d) Being dehumanized.

3. What do women of color dare to show the world? ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")
(a) Their honesty.
(b) Their pride in their culture.
(c) Human flesh and the red of their blood.
(d) Their power.

4. "We challenge symptoms of the disease while neglecting the _________________," as related in "The Pathology of Racism" by Davenport.
(a) Future.
(b) Symptoms.
(c) Past.
(d) Causes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the introduction of "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You: Racism in the Women's Movement," women of color are veterans of____________.

2. What does the author want to make changes in, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?

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

5. "Even though we go hungry we are not impoverished of ________________." ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")

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