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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comes with admitting your sexual preferences?
(a) Hate.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Discrimination.

2. What does a crazy woman do in the restaurant where Moraga is working?
(a) Pours coffee on a stranger.
(b) Sprays the fire extinguisher.
(c) Takes off all her clothes.
(d) Screams about Jesus coming soon.

3. Where does Moraga see the oppressor?
(a) In social services.
(b) In church.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) In politics.

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

5. What does Moraga call the groveling before the family matriarch?
(a) Necessary evil.
(b) Sign of respect.
(c) Docile obedience.
(d) Ignorance.

6. What about herself does Moraga think is more fundamental than any religious affiliation?
(a) Her education.
(b) Her sense of humor.
(c) Her integrity.
(d) Her lesbianism.

7. What does Cecilia do when in her dream she sees Deborah on the other side of the window with the burglar?
(a) She does not let her in.
(b) She smashes the window.
(c) She calls 911.
(d) She closes the blinds.

8. From which woman did all the women in Moraga's family want approval?
(a) Mother.
(b) Great Grandmother.
(c) Grandmother.
(d) Great Aunt.

9. What is the war that Moraga talks about in "Hearts?"
(a) The War on Poverty.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) The Civil Rights war.
(d) The battle waged by oppressed groups.

10. In "An Open Invitation to a Meal" the narrator is tired of being treated as a _____________.
(a) Dessert.
(b) Leftover.
(c) Pork chop.
(d) Burrito.

11. Why Moraga's mother asked her to speak to her father about his presumed homosexuality?
(a) She was a lesbian.
(b) She was more educated.
(c) She was his favorite.
(d) She could calm him down.

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

13. In what country does Moraga live?
(a) American.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Spain.
(d) Mexico.

14. What part of a woman's body does Moraga talk about in "For the Color of My Mother?"
(a) Hands.
(b) Mouths.
(c) Hair.
(d) Eyes.

15. What does Moraga contemplate in "Hearts?"
(a) How to recover from a war no one knew about.
(b) How to make more money.
(c) How to be a good lover.
(d) How to live a happy life.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "It Got Her Over" who does Moraga say both receives benefits and bears guilt due to race?

2. Who is the girl who meets Joyce in "Later, She Met Joyce?"

3. What images does Moraga talk about in "Winter of Oppression, 1982?"

4. Which of the following does Moraga say can live inside even the most liberal-minded person?

5. What had happened to Moraga's lover's brother?

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