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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. Where did the narrator of "I Am What I Am" get her English accent from?
(a) The BBC.
(b) National Geographic Channel.
(c) Gospel Songs.
(d) Sesame Street.

2. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?
(a) School children.
(b) Owls.
(c) Sirens.
(d) Gun fire.

3. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?
(a) Blackberries.
(b) Needles.
(c) Pillows.
(d) Hershey's kisses.

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

5. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?
(a) Toni Bambara.
(b) Donna Rushin.
(c) Cherrie Moraga.
(d) Merlin Stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "on not bein"?

2. "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."

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. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?

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