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A character of this ethnicity notes that a girl "likes looking at the walls" and "linoleum (20[1])roses on the floor." That character of this ethnicity claims, (20[2])"I'll shake the sky / like a hundred (20[1])violins" in a poem that leads her aunt to say, "You must keep writing." (20[2])An angry dentist leads an author of (0[1])this ethnicity (0[1])to wonder (0[1])how to "tame a wild tongue" in an essay (20[3])from (0[1])Borderlands. (20[1])A character of this ethnicity (20[1])lives in the title "sad red" (*) building (10[1])that (10[1])"says goodbye (10[2])sometimes." (10[3])In a series of vignettes, (10[2])a girl of this ethnicity (10[3])walks in heels (10[1])with Lucy and Rachel (10[2])and is (10[1])assaulted at a carnival (10[1])after (10[2])Sally (10[1])leaves (10[1])her. (10[1])For 10 points, the narrator of The House on Mango Street (10[1])is (10[1])of (10[1])what (10[1])ethnicity (0[1])of Chicana authors Gloria Anzaldúa (10[2])and Sandra (10[1])Cisneros? (0[1])■END■ (10[1])

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