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

2. According to Doris Davenport, what is the cause of racism in white feminists?
(a) Bizarre oppression.
(b) Miseducation.
(c) Hatred of those not white.
(d) Fear.

3. According to Cheryl Clarke, of whom are black women envious?
(a) Pampered "powder puffs."
(b) Women whom have made a name for themselves in the white man's world.
(c) Women with morals.
(d) Wealthy women.

4. "Light was _________," according to the narrator in "La Guera."
(a) Right.
(b) Hate.
(c) Truth.
(d) Wrong.

5. In her letter to Barbara Smith, Mirtha Quintanales tells Smith about ___________.
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Austin.
(c) Dallas.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Doris Davenport, what is wrong with the word "racism"?

2. What does Gabrielle Daniels claim is the only thing for which Millicent would rise?

3. According to "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance," in the Black world, who are the two free people in the United States?

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

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

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