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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 169 - 190.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why could Moraga relate to the Holocaust victims?
(a) They were white with "unusual" last names.
(b) She went to college with Jewish kids.
(c) Spanish people were also persecuted.
(d) She is part-Jewish.

2. In "The Pilgrimage" a woman recalls her mother telling her that women would crawl into _______________.
(a) Bars.
(b) Bed.
(c) Schools.
(d) Church.

3. Why does Moraga think she was assuming the role of chingon?
(a) Because of her social status.
(b) Because of her physical strength.
(c) Because of her repressed sexuality.
(d) Because of her hormones.

4. In "Querida Companera," Moraga writes about the feeling of ___________________.
(a) Being rejected.
(b) Kissing a woman.
(c) Achieving goals.
(d) Being in love.

5. In "It's the Poverty," Moraga uses the imagery of ______________ to defend her outmoded form of communication.
(a) An old car.
(b) A high school yearbook.
(c) An old typewriter.
(d) A vintage dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Moraga feels that she places herself at the mercy of ______________ which hates and persecutes homosexuals.

2. In "Salvation, Jesus, and Suffer" where is Moraga working?

3. Many activists identify the oppressor as which of the following?

4. Assuming that works of art that are not built upon Western foundations and structures have no value is intrinsically ethnocentric and ______________.

5. Who was the Aztec princess who slept with Cortez, the head of the conquistadors?

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