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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. "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) Mixed.
(b) Violent.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Determined.

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

3. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) Arthur Miller.

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

5. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?
(a) British.
(b) American.
(c) Finnish.
(d) Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?

2. Who wrote "When I Was Growing Up"?

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

4. What does the narrator say she is in "I Am What I Am"?

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

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