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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Entering the Lives of Others: Theory in the Flesh.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?
(a) Gun fire.
(b) Owls.
(c) School children.
(d) Sirens.

2. According to the introduction, for whom do Third World women put themselves on the line for?
(a) Their homelands.
(b) Their parents.
(c) Their darker sisters.
(d) Their selves.

3. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?
(a) For their fair skin.
(b) For their rigidity following mainstream thought.
(c) For their success in school.
(d) For their success in following the rules of white society.

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

5. 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) Chrystos.
(b) Maxine Hong Kingston.
(c) Barbara Smith.
(d) Mitsuye Yamada.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?

2. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?

3. In what year did the mother of the author of "La Guera" marry the writer's father?

4. Who did the subject from "on not bein" marry?

5. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?

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