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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 191 - 213.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Moraga cover up her feelings about having sex with a woman?
(a) She became angry.
(b) She became silent.
(c) She became aggressive.
(d) She became sullen.

2. Americans need to be reminded that their history did not begin in what year?
(a) 1492.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1692.
(d) 2001.

3. According to Moraga, which is the only ethnic background that the American school system seems interested in informing students about?
(a) Western European.
(b) Asian.
(c) Italian.
(d) Hispanic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "La Guera" what does Moraga say made her life easier for her?

2. What color soil does Moraga speak about in "La Danzante?"

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

4. Where does Moraga see the oppressor?

5. According to Paz, the chingon is the ___________ partner.

(see the answer key)

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