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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 did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?
(a) White.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Female.
(d) Black.

2. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Flordia.
(c) Georgia.
(d) South Carolina.

3. 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 broke her leg.
(c) She was attacked by a dog.
(d) She split her lip open.

4. "We are women from all kinds of ____________________ streets." This statement is taken from Moraga's "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism."
(a) Childhood.
(b) Mixed.
(c) Determined.
(d) Violent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?

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

3. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?

4. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?

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

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