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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 70 - 80.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Catholicism make Moraga miserable?
(a) She couldn't eat meat on Fridays.
(b) She had to go to Confession.
(c) She had to go to mass every Sunday.
(d) It condemned her lesbianism.

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

3. How old was Moraga's brother's lover when he was killed?
(a) 17.
(b) 12.
(c) 33.
(d) 24.

4. Moraga's nationality is half-white and half ______________.
(a) Mexican.
(b) German.
(c) Italian.
(d) English.

5. Why was Moraga shocked to see pictures of the lynching of black people?
(a) She never knew such things happened.
(b) Her education largely neglected the topic.
(c) Her father told her lynching stories were not true.
(d) She cannot imagine anyone doing such a cruel thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Cecilia's lover?

2. In "Fear, a Love Poem" what does the narrator say has been hard for her?

3. Moraga says that it is only ___________ who ever get any attention.

4. Why does Moraga refuse to give up her old typewriter?

5. What had Moraga and her mother suspected about her father?

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