Color Online Quiz: Literature & Women's Studies

Quiz #99

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The book is a classic. It follows the quest of several women, a quest for freedom, for a life more fulfilling. One ran away from domestic abuse, from a husband and child who physically threatened her life. Another is a young girl in a difficult relationship with her mother. Another one, Mother, is considered a saint. Grace and Divine are some of the characters' names.

A town only populated by Black people, and two families clashing over a power struggle.

Do you have a title in mind?

PARADISE, by Toni Morrison. Congratulations to Bonnie and Kim for finding the title!

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Quiz #98

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It is the biography of a discreet female leader of the Civil Rights Movement, an exploration of seven decades of protestations and actions as a social worker, a mediator, a teacher... It is about the creation of Black Family Reunion celebrations, Wednesdays in Mississippi, the early work of inter-faith and inter-racial discussions and collaborations among women of all generations, and much more...

Who is she and what is the title if the book? 

Open Wide the Freedom Gates, by Dorothy Height.

Thanks, Aiesha! :)

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Quiz #97
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Dangarembga in 1989, is a semi-autobiographical coming of age story about a young woman in modern Africa. The story takes place in Rhodesia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The story centers around Tambu and Nyasha, female cousins who, until their early teens, lead very different lives.
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Thanks, Natalie.

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Quiz #95
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Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished. ~Mukhtaran Bibi

[She]was gang raped in an "honour" revenge issued by tribal council. She was expected to have committed suicide after this, but took the case to court instead. The perpetrators were charged and arrested, and later acquitted. Nonetheless, she started an organization to empower girls and women in Pakistan.

Thanks, Niranjana.

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Quiz #94
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. ~Wangari Maathai


The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. [She]obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964)

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Quiz #93
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She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her ancestry is part Laguna Pueblo Native American, Mexican and European American. Her first novel is one of the most often taught Native titles taught in colleges.

Leslie Marmon Silko. First novel was Ceremony.

Color Online Quiz: Celebrating Women's History Month

Quiz #92
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1908. She was an Egyptian community activist. She founded the first charity run by Muslim women in Egypt dedicated to the welfare of children called "Jam'iyyat al-Safaqa bi'laAtfal" ("Society of Compassion for Children")

Who was she?

Color Online Quiz: Celebrating Women's History Month

Quiz #91
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The first novel by an African American. The daughter of freed slaves, she worked for the abolitionist movement. In 1896, she helped found the National Association of Colored Women.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

Novel, Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted.
*source: Women's Firsts, Peggy Saari, Tim and Susan Gall, editors. UXL, a Gale Imprint.

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Quiz #90
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According to Alice Walker, what does the name “Mammy” come from?


Evelyn-
but I got that information from a book Alice wrote called Living by the Word. It's on page 58.

Jill-
Alice Walker contended that "Mammy was named for her mammary glands - the body parts that indicate her primary caretaking role." Other writers note that the image of the mammy does relate to a figure in African mythology but the name "mammy" itself is derived from, as indicated above, mammary glands. See Alice Walker in Ms. Magazine, May/June 1994. For more on Walker and also for info on other contentions about mammys see the book "Mothers and Daughters: Connection, Empowerment, and Transformation" by Andrea O'Reilly and Sharon Abbey.

Thank you both.

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Quiz #90
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From staff, we have this week-

What pathbreaking feminist writer wrote:
Star Wars - which is being sold to the public as 'fun' - is in fact racist, grossly sexist, not apolitical in the least but authoritarian and morally imbecile, all of this is both denied and enforced by the opportunism of camp... and spiced up by technological wonders and marvels..." [Sounds like Avatar; some things never change!] ~Joanna Russ

Thanks, Sandra.

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Quiz #89
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This week's quiz is a little different. In light of the recent whitewashing controversy with Magic Under The Glass, please post any whitewashing of a title past or present. If you can provide images, please send the pics to me at cora_litgroup. put Quiz on subject line.


Every commenter who responds with a title will be entered in January's drawing. You can read more how Color Online is taking a stance against whitewashing here, Readers Against WhiteWashing.

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Quiz #88
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What is the poem shown below all about? What message does it convey and how effective is it? Who is the poet?

THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.


We real cool. We
Left School. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

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Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) had her first poem published at the age of thirteen. About her poems she said, "I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street," Ms. Brooks told Paul M. Angle in an interview for Illinois Bell (Summer 1967) magazine. “I lived in a small second-floor apartment at the corner, and I could look first on one side and then on the other. There was my material.”

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Quiz #86
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"weaves together a terrific multigenerational family tale that, like Alex Hailey's Roots, will inspire readers to research their family history. Writing in a mystical style similar to that of Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe, [ ] is an imaginative storyteller who mesmerizes readers with her words."~Library Journal

We've featured this talented writer recently. 2010 will mark the 10th anniversary of her debut novel and the release of her latest work. Name the author and the new book title.

Glorious by Bernice McFadden. Thanks, Mardel

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Quiz #85

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I grew up speaking two languages, balancing life lived on the edge of two cultures, and, happily, two cuisines—tandoori chicken and hot dogs, grilled side by side on the 4th of July.


Her debut novel, based in part on her husband’s experience fleeing Soviet controlled Afghanistan in 1979 is a story of hope, love, and perseverance.

Who is she? What is the name of her book?

Shooting Kabul by Naheed H. Senzai Thanks, Ban.

Color Online Quiz: Literature and Women's Studies

Quiz #84

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I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital form. Not only does it allow for the kind of full-blown, richly detailed writing that I love… but it permits me to operate on many levels and to explore both the inner state of my characters as well as the worlds beyond them. ~Paule Marshall

She was born April 9, 1839.ournalist, short fiction writer, novelist, essayist, lecturer, and educator. Who is she?

Color Online Quiz: Literature & Women's Studies

Quiz #83

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Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 edited by Melba Joyce Boyd and M.L. Liebler

A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present. Do poets' surroundings shape their viewpoint and work? Abandon Automobile seeks to address this question by bringing together the work of more than one hundred of Detroit's most acclaimed and accessible poets.
Writing about location as if it were a living entity, these poets visualize Detroit as a variety of complex archetypes - the city becomes a savior, a beast, a nurturing mother, a seductress, a friend, an enemy.

Thanks, Mardel.

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Quiz #82

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She was born in Berlin, Germany, to army lieutenant and saxophonist father. Her mother was a health care worker Raised in Washington, D.C.,she attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Oxon Hill High School.


Meshell Ndegeocello. Thanks, Ana.

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Quiz #81
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From the author who gave us a brilliant memoir in an unconventional format, the graphic novel, she again shares intimate, provocative conversations between women. My kind of book.

recounts an evening when nine very different Iranian women gather over tea [or samovar] to discuss men, marital relations and sex. She also describes it as “a long session of ventilation of the heart.” I adore that turn of phrase. It expresses so much.

Thanks, Lu. See full review of Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi at Steele On Entertainment. Join the women at Women Unbound.

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Quiz #80
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It is a nostalgic, pop culture fueled book that will appeal to anyone who can't leave the '80s behind. It is also a touching, almost gut wrenching story about Vietnamese boat people and their assimilation in the US. These two threads coalesce in a [author] glamorizes while growing up in Grand Rapids, MI.
Name the author and title.

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Quiz #80
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"Perhaps ... I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself -- a Black woman warrior poet doing my work -- come to ask you, are you doing yours?" This is how [ ] introduces herself in a paper entitled "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.~Audre Lorde
February 18, 1934- 1992."


Name the collection of essays this is taken from and name the writer.