View a FREE sample

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. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?
(a) "Martinique's Song."
(b) "Nappy Edges."
(c) "Poetic Voices."
(d) "Dark Voices."

2. What does "braceros" mean?
(a) Oppressed.
(b) White-skins.
(c) Enslaved.
(d) Wet-backs.

3. 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) Entity.
(c) American.
(d) Power.

4. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?
(a) She fell off of a roof.
(b) She split her lip open.
(c) She broke her leg.
(d) She was attacked by a dog.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?

2. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?

3. 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"?

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

5. Who wrote "The Brown Menace/Poem to the Survival of Roaches"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 256 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample