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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Moraga, art is ____________.

3. Who was the writer who wrote that the United States-Mexican border was a "1,950-mile-long open wound"?

4. Moraga states that her essay, "Out of Our Revolutionary Minds Toward a Pedagogy of Revolt" can be interpreted as a form of _____________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Moraga, what can repression lead to in almost every Chicana's life?

2. What are the circumstances that make the myth of La Mujer Llorena come alive for Moraga?

3. Why are sexually liberated women, and to a greater degree, lesbians, denigrated in Chicano society?

4. According to Moraga, how can the feminist movement be considered racist?

5. According to Moraga, what is the university system only interested in producing?

6. What are Moraga's thoughts regarding post-modernism's use of jargon leading to a marginalization of topics?

7. Who is Malinche and why to Mexicans despise her?

8. What did Moraga learn about sexism from being raised a Chicana woman?

9. Why does Moraga feel the feminist movement may be doomed to failure?

10. What does Moraga think might be the deep, real reason that women kill their children?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

LOVING IN THE WAR YEARS is a classic story of the search to find your true identity and the struggle to preserve it. What does that classification entail? Why does Moraga's work in this book fit into this category? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the overall ethnic culture for the book. What influences does ethnicity have on Moraga's poems and essays? What is the time period of the poems and essays? How important is the time period to the attitudes and issues reflected in the work?

Essay Topic 3

In what way does Moraga say the feminist movement could benefit from studying the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s? What is missing from the feminist movement that was central to the Civil Rights movement? Why would the feminist movement be more successful if it would adopt this aspect of the Civil Rights movement?

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