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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Between the Lines: On Culture, Class and Homophobia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "braceros" mean?
(a) White-skins.
(b) Wet-backs.
(c) Oppressed.
(d) Enslaved.

2. In her letter to Barbara Smith, Mirtha Quintanales tells Smith about ___________.
(a) New York.
(b) Austin.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Dallas.

3. According to Barbara Smith, what book did African American students have a hard time believing was about "white people"?
(a) "The Grapes of Wrath."
(b) "The Sound and the Fury."
(c) "Invisible Man."
(d) "Diasy Miller."

4. Who wrote the following: "I do not believe/our wants have made all our lies/holy"?
(a) Audre Lorde.
(b) Cherrie Moraga.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Ai.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?

2. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?

3. What does the author want to make changes in, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?

4. Who wrote "It's In My Blood, My Face- My mother's Voice, The Way I Sweat"?

5. Who is quoted at the beginning of "La Guera"?

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