Question 1

What does Dark have in common with the woman who is checking her out at the beginning of the reading?
A) The have the same recycled yak fur yoga mat
B) They have the same hairstyle
C) They are both women of color
D) They are both fit and fat women

Accepted Answer

"The woman who stared and smiled? She's fit and fat, too. And if she hadn't been so openly interested in looking at my body, I'd have been sneaking peeks at hers, catching glimpses of how her thighs appear in those stretch pants and how her belly or arm fat protrudes from her spandex tank top."

Question 2

"The bad news-and the good news- is that living a good life is more about acceptance than it is about _______. Sure, change is possible, but it's not always the change you were taught to believe you should want."
A) attainment
B) health
C) thinness
D) None of the above

Accepted Answer

The sentence suggests that living a good life is more about acceptance than achieving or attaining something, making "attainment" the most fitting word to complete the sentence.

Question 3

What is used as resistance to controlling images by Latino men when they are younger and without much social power?
A) education
B) emotion
C) leadership
D) none of the above

Accepted Answer

The article states, "Latino men respond to controlling images principally with emotion in their younger years until they achieve greater social power with age and then resist through leadership in their public-service professions."

Question 4

What does resistance against controlling images look like in adult Latino men?
A) leadership in the community
B) going back to college
C) making one's body stronger
D) none of the above

Accepted Answer

The study shows, "Among adult respondents, most of whom were professionals, resistance materialized as leadership in and "giving back" to their community. "

Question 5

"Controlling images (and the institutions and people that communicate them) are a mechanism to control _______ groups. Controlling images constrain: they divert education, impose suspicion of illegality, block upward mobility, and cause stress. Controlling images are intersectional, specific imagery applying to different groups based on axes of difference such as race, gender, sexuality, and skin color."
A) empowered
B) powerful
C) underprivileged
D) angry

Accepted Answer

Controlling images are often used as a tool to maintain and reinforce the marginalization of underprivileged groups by perpetuating stereotypes and limiting their opportunities. This concept is widely discussed in the context of social inequality, where imagery and media representations play a significant role in shaping perceptions and realities of marginalized communities.

Question 6

What does the poem imagine as the best way to draw the woman's body to begin a new way of looking at women in general?
A) draw her not as she is but a different, better version that is thinner
B) draw her as a child
C) draw her as a revolution
D) none of the above

Accepted Answer

The lines read, "And perhaps, if you were to actually draw her body as a revolution--a fist, a foot, a hot sick mouth what could we be then?"

Question 7

In what way does the poem ask the "you" to draw a woman?
A) As one-dimensional and flat
B) As three-dimensional and voluptuous
C) As someone who hates her body
D) All of the above

Accepted Answer

The poem focuses on asking the you to draw the woman as three-dimensional and voluptuous.

Question 8

What are the ways to depict women radically?
A) lonely
B) whole
C) enough
D) all of the above

Accepted Answer

The lines read, "draw her radically still, draw her radically lonely and radically whole and radically enough"

Question 9

What is interesting about the way this poem presents the story?
A) it has no punctuation
B) it is not in English
C) it is all one line
D) no words are capitalized

Accepted Answer

None of the words is capitalized.

Question 10

What did the narrator do at the age of 12?
A) ran away
B) stopped the beating
C) called the police
D) none of the above

Accepted Answer

The narrator stops the beating.

Question 11

What does the narrator worry about at the end of the poem?
A) That the man will leave
B) That no one will stop the beatings once she is gone
C) That the police will come and take the children away
D) None of the above

Accepted Answer

The poem ends with the worry that no one will stop the beatings: "who will stand here now,/ hand gripping my hand,/ to block 10,000 blows?"

Quiz 4: Epistemologies of Bodies: Ways of Knowing and Experiencing the World

What does Dark have in common with the woman who is checking her out at the beginning of the reading?

"The bad news-and the good news- is that living a good life is more about acceptance than it is about _______. Sure, change is possible, but it's not always the change you were taught to believe you should want."

What is used as resistance to controlling images by Latino men when they are younger and without much social power?

What does resistance against controlling images look like in adult Latino men?

What does the poem imagine as the best way to draw the woman's body to begin a new way of looking at women in general?

In what way does the poem ask the "you" to draw a woman?

What are the ways to depict women radically?

What is interesting about the way this poem presents the story?

What did the narrator do at the age of 12?

What does the narrator worry about at the end of the poem?