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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. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?
(a) Her dog.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her daughter.

2. In "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?
(a) If they share her dreams.
(b) If they wish to be someone else.
(c) If they are afraid of who they are.
(d) If they notice her the way she notices them.

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

4. Who is quoted at the beginning of "Children Passing in the Streets" as saying, "I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes"?
(a) Mitsuye Yamada.
(b) Maxine Hong Kingston.
(c) Chrystos.
(d) Barbara Smith.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Doris Davenport write "women"?

4. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?

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

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