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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Moraga, ______________ means more than one's own well-being or peace.
(a) Poetry.
(b) The truth.
(c) Education.
(d) The future.

2. Moraga's various identities have particularly affected her life with _____________.
(a) her family.
(b) her editors.
(c) her employers.
(d) her friends.

3. Who is the girl who meets Joyce in "Later, She Met Joyce?"
(a) Cecilia.
(b) Celine.
(c) Cassie.
(d) Cassandra.

4. In "Salvation, Jesus, and Suffer" where is Moraga working?
(a) A flower shop.
(b) A factory.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A pizzeria.

5. 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.

6. What is one of the main themes in this section of poems?
(a) Lost love.
(b) Reconciliation.
(c) War.
(d) Repressed sexuality.

7. How did Moraga feel within her church?
(a) Like she never gave enough.
(b) Like she could be a preacher.
(c) Like she was a saint.
(d) Like she was damned.

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

9. In what way does Moraga say she can be racist?
(a) In the books she reads.
(b) In her choice of friends.
(c) In her language.
(d) In her clothes.

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

11. What does Moraga say cannot be dealt with from a purely theoretical perspective?
(a) Gender identity.
(b) Finances.
(c) Education.
(d) Oppression.

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

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

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

15. What is the dominant theme in the poems in this section?
(a) The difficulty of a lesbian accepting who she is.
(b) The right for same-sex couples to marry.
(c) The parental influence over lesbians.
(d) The discrimination against lesbians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is sex with her girlfriend better than sex with the male soldier?

3. When they are at a friend's house, Cecilia feels like __________________________.

4. Many activists identify the oppressor as which of the following?

5. What did Moraga know about herself from a very young age?

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