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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Entering the Lives of Others: Theory in the Flesh.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?
(a) Her dog.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her daughter.

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

3. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?
(a) If she is afraid.
(b) If she is content.
(c) If she is happy.
(d) If she is an alcholic.

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

5. "Women who must sell _________________ for pennies a day" is a quote from "Wonder Woman."
(a) Shrimps.
(b) Their own garden items.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Their children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Brown Menace/Poem to the Survival of Roaches"?

2. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?

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

4. According to Cherrie Moraga, what does lesbianism equal in "this country"?

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

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