“The Myth of the Latin Woman: I just met a Girl Named Maria,”

Directions: Answer the following questions in the form on a minimum of one well- organized paragraph. One of the questions must be a minimum of two well-organized paragraphs. Quotations from the essays are required to support each question. Standard Format is required, one point will be lost for every error from the “Twenty Corrections Symbols” hand-out, and the quiz must be typed or word processed. Each question is worth a maximum of ten points. Quote from essays in every question to support your answers. 1. In “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I just met a Girl Named Maria,” what do the incidents on the bus, in the hotel, and at the poetry reading have in common? 2. Walker titles her essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, not of “My Mother’s Garden.” What does her mother have in common with all the mothers she writes about? Clearly, not all of these generations of mothers kept gardens. In what sense is Walker using the idea of gardens in this essay? 3. In ‘Professions for Women,” Virginia Woolf refers repeatedly to the metaphor of “The Angel in the House.’ What was The Angel in the House? Why did Woolf feel she had to “kill” the Angel in the House? 4. Compare Daniel Defoe’s essay to “Professions for Women.” Does Woolf agree with Defoe’s ideas about essential female nature? How else can you compare and contrast the two essays’ arguments and assumptions about women? 5. In ‘Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted,” what idea of social media is Malcolm Gladwell arguing against? 6. In “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space,” how does Brent Staples describe himself? How is he sometimes seen by others? 7. In “Civil Disobedience,” why did Henry David Thoreau refuse to pay his “poll tax?” What happened when Thoreau refused to pay his “poll tax?” What life lessons did Thoreau learn when he refused to pay his “poll tax?” Answer specifically and completely because this question is worth 20 points.

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