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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Moraga, who does intellectualism serve?
(a) The ruling class.
(b) Universities.
(c) Ministers.
(d) Students.

2. According to Paz, the chingon is the ___________ partner.
(a) Uninterested.
(b) Active.
(c) Passive.
(d) Annoyed.

3. A Chicana mother's adoration of her sons is an unconscious attempt to turn them into _______________________.
(a) Candidates for the priesthood.
(b) The kind of man they wished they had married.
(c) Independent thinkers.
(d) Better family men.

4. Most lesbians claim that a lesbian loses the desire for __________________.
(a) Romance.
(b) Dating.
(c) Penetrative sex.
(d) Tough women.

5. According to Moraga, the abstractness of academia has a/an _______________ effect.
(a) Calming.
(b) Neutralizing.
(c) Invigorating.
(d) Revolutionary.

6. Octavio Paz makes a distinction between partners in ____________________.
(a) Any competitive sport.
(b) Any sexual act.
(c) Any political campaign.
(d) Any business venture.

7. What is the extreme goal of White Supremacists?
(a) Integration.
(b) Aggression.
(c) Extermination.
(d) Segregation.

8. The right to passion drives which one of the following?
(a) All of these.
(b) Economic movements.
(c) Cultural movements.
(d) Women's movements.

9. Moraga grew up as a ______________ woman.
(a) sad.
(b) Chicana.
(c) accomplished.
(d) bitter.

10. Who was the Aztec princess who slept with Cortez, the head of the conquistadors?
(a) Mellior.
(b) Malinche.
(c) Mellita.
(d) Magrid.

11. Sexism is far more complex than _____________.
(a) Integration.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Politics.
(d) Racism.

12. The feminist movement is dominated by _____________________.
(a) Lesbians.
(b) Aggressive women.
(c) The white, middle-class perspective.
(d) Angry women.

13. Moraga states that her essay, "Out of Our Revolutionary Minds Toward a Pedagogy of Revolt" can be interpreted as a form of _____________________.
(a) Oppression.
(b) Anti-intellectualism.
(c) Racism.
(d) Liberalism.

14. Who was the writer who wrote that the United States-Mexican border was a "1,950-mile-long open wound"?
(a) Gloria Allred.
(b) Gloria Steinem.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Gloria Anzaldua.

15. Why could the feminist movement be considered racist?
(a) There is a limit to the number of black women included.
(b) There are no provisions for Hispanic language translations.
(c) It pays attention to issues regarding white, middle-class women.
(d) Asian women must be put on a waiting list to join.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Sour Grapes: The Art of Anger in America," Moraga states that Americans are largely ignorant of which culture?

2. According to Moraga, whose language is the oppressor in American society?

3. According to Moraga, true progress for racial and ___________ progress is impossible as long as white, upper-class men permeate institutions.

4. Moraga claims that excessive jargon leads to ________________ of the ideas upon which it touches.

5. According to Moraga, the university system in America is interested only in producing ____________________.

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