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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Moraga and her mother suspected about her father?
(a) He was unfaithful.
(b) He was a homosexual.
(c) He was a closet alcoholic.
(d) He smoked pot.

2. In "The Voices of the Fallers," falling is compared to the experience of _________________.
(a) Dying.
(b) Flying.
(c) Being an open lesbian.
(d) Writing.

3. Which of the following does Moraga write about in "For the Color of My Mother?"
(a) Her mother's desperate prayers.
(b) All of these.
(c) The moans of a difficult childbirth.
(d) Having her lip split open as a child.

4. What was Moraga's feeling when she left her church?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Relief.
(c) Joy.
(d) No feeling.

5. In "Loving in the War Years" to what does Moraga compare being in love during war?
(a) Trying to get a book published.
(b) Fighting with a lover.
(c) Arguing with parents.
(d) Being in a lesbian relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Moraga, ______________ means more than one's own well-being or peace.

2. The woman in "The Pilgrimage" was a child at the time and wondered about _________________.

3. With whom does Moraga identify in "No Born-Again Children?"

4. How did Moraga feel within her church?

5. In "The Pilgrimage" a woman recalls her mother telling her that women would crawl into _______________.

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