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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Moraga, the feminist movement should pay attention to _________________.
(a) The Civil Rights movement.
(b) Older Hispanic women.
(c) The Women's Suffrage movement.
(d) Young black women.

2. In "Entre Nos," Moraga states that she is connected spiritually with whom?
(a) Indians.
(b) Cubans.
(c) Italians.
(d) Puerto Ricans.

3. In "Canto Florido" to what does Moraga liken words that are thought but never spoken?
(a) Flowers which bloom in the spring.
(b) Florida sunsets.
(c) Flowers which rest on the tip of the mouth.
(d) Songs of Florida.

4. Octavio Paz makes a distinction between partners in ____________________.
(a) Any business venture.
(b) Any political campaign.
(c) Any competitive sport.
(d) Any sexual act.

5. A movement that has a _________________ is far more likely to succeed than a movement that is purely theoretical.
(a) High profile leader.
(b) Good organizational structure.
(c) Significant amount of money.
(d) Spiritual quality.

6. Most lesbians claim that a lesbian loses the desire for __________________.
(a) Penetrative sex.
(b) Romance.
(c) Dating.
(d) Tough women.

7. Why is a lesbian considered to be an outlaw in Chicano society?
(a) She has disregarded the rules set out by male society.
(b) She won't flirt with men.
(c) She preys upon other women.
(d) She will kill anyone who gets in her way.

8. Why does Moraga think she was assuming the role of chingon?
(a) Because of her physical strength.
(b) Because of her social status.
(c) Because of her hormones.
(d) Because of her repressed sexuality.

9. Who is Octavio Paz?
(a) A Mexican author.
(b) A Mexican athlete.
(c) A Mexican singer.
(d) A Mexican politician.

10. Various codes of sexual morality, especially the institution of marriage, are founded on the masculine desire to __________________.
(a) Be socially acceptable.
(b) Have children.
(c) Sexually control his partner.
(d) Always be right.

11. One of the myths of the lesbian movement is that lesbian sexuality is __________________________.
(a) A crime against nature.
(b) Something that can be learned.
(c) Superior to heterosexual sexuality.
(d) Altogether different from heterosexual sexuality.

12. To what does the feminist movement neglect to pay attention?
(a) Sexism in all of its forms.
(b) Children's issues.
(c) Couples issues.
(d) Men's rights.

13. The feminist movement is doomed to failure if it does not __________________________.
(a) Fire Gloria Steinem.
(b) Get political backing.
(c) Incorporate the experiences of all kinds of women.
(d) Create more awareness.

14. Assuming that works of art that are not built upon Western foundations and structures have no value is intrinsically ethnocentric and ______________.
(a) Wrong.
(b) Negative.
(c) Racist.
(d) Accurate.

15. The right to passion drives which one of the following?
(a) Economic movements.
(b) All of these.
(c) Cultural movements.
(d) Women's movements.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chicano culture, a lesbian is considered to be __________________.

2. The feminist movement is dominated by _____________________.

3. According to Moraga, whose language is the oppressor in American society?

4. What is the literary device used by Anzaldua when she wrote that the United States-Mexican border was a "1,950 mile-long open wound"?

5. Moraga states that her essay, "Out of Our Revolutionary Minds Toward a Pedagogy of Revolt" can be interpreted as a form of _____________________.

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