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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. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?
(a) Marilyn French.
(b) Marleen Barr.
(c) Sandy Boucher.
(d) Ntozake Shange.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did the subject from "on not bein" marry?

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

4. Where did the narrator of "I Am What I Am" get her English accent from?

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

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