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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 word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?
(a) Feminist.
(b) American.
(c) Power.
(d) Entity.

2. How old was the narrator's mother when she was the main support of her family? ("La Guera")
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 16.

3. Why was the author of "La Guera" pulled out of school at the ages of five, seven, nine, and eleven?
(a) To take care of her ailing mother.
(b) To work in a silk factory.
(c) To work in a factory.
(d) To work in the fields.

4. Where was the author of "La Guera"'s mother born?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Stockton.
(c) San Jose.
(d) Santa Paula.

5. Who confided in Cherrie Moraga that he felt she didn't trust him because he was a male?
(a) A gay friend.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her college mentor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "problem" is addressed in the first section of the book?

2. According to Cherrie Moraga, what does lesbianism equal in "this country"?

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

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

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

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