A Left-Handed Commencement Address Quizzes
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around A Left-Handed Commencement Address? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Finish her opening line: "I want to thank the Mills College Class of '83 for offering me a rare chance: to speak aloud in public __________."
…about my colonoscopy.
… naked.
…in the language of women.
…while playing the bongos.
Q. How does Le Guin define success? Success is:
somebody else's failure.
having a bus load of kids.
getting rich off someone else's labors.
graduating college.
Q. How does "our rationalizing culture of success" describe the "dark place"?
where human beings grow human souls.
a place of exile, uninhabitable, foreign.
where losers go to cry.
uhhhh… dark. Wicked dark.
Q. Why are the graduates of Mills College, Class of '83 going to meet failure?
Because they're women.
Because they're too young.
Because they're too late.
Because they're human beings.
Q. Fill in the blanks: Our roots are in the ______; the earth is our _____.
earth; roots
Groot; Groot
dark; country
ground; mother