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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?
(a) Erica Jong.
(b) Ekaterina Sedia.
(c) Cherrie Moraga.
(d) Rita M. Gross.

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

4. What does the narrator croon in "I Am What I Am"?
(a) Carlos Gardel tangoes.
(b) Skitzo rap.
(c) Jorge Arraiza songs.
(d) Rafael Ithier poetry.

5. Who wrote "When I Was Growing Up"?
(a) Phillis Wheatley.
(b) Qui Jin.
(c) Rita Dove.
(d) Nellie Wong.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

4. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?

5. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?

(see the answer key)

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