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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say she is in "I Am What I Am"?
(a) An African American.
(b) A Spaniard.
(c) A U.S. American.
(d) A Mexican.

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

3. According to Barbara Noda, what sang out to her in "Lowriding Through the Women's Movement"?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Black.

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

5. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) Aaliyah Haughton.
(b) Martha Georga.
(c) Sarah James.
(d) Naomi Littlebear.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cheryl Clarke, of whom are black women envious?

2. According to Barbara Smith, what book did African American students have a hard time believing was about "white people"?

3. Where did the author of "La Guera's" mother work while lying about her age?

4. According to Barbara Smith, what does one woman state as the reason for not watching television?

5. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?

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