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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From what other institution can the women's movement learn?
(a) Sports.
(b) Politics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Education.

3. Moraga grew up as a ______________ woman.
(a) Chicana.
(b) sad.
(c) bitter.
(d) accomplished.

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

5. According to Moraga, the problems with primary education are mainly related to ____________________.
(a) Disinterested parents.
(b) Inept teachers.
(c) A lack of funding for arts.
(d) A lack of respect for culture.

6. According to Moraga, America is a country in which people are so easily _______________.
(a) Assimilated.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Persuaded.
(d) Swayed.

7. The feminist movement is dominated by _____________________.
(a) The white, middle-class perspective.
(b) Aggressive women.
(c) Angry women.
(d) Lesbians.

8. Why could the feminist movement be considered racist?
(a) Asian women must be put on a waiting list to join.
(b) There is a limit to the number of black women included.
(c) It pays attention to issues regarding white, middle-class women.
(d) There are no provisions for Hispanic language translations.

9. In Chicano culture a sexually liberated woman is considered to be ____________________.
(a) Impolite.
(b) A whore.
(c) Exciting.
(d) An abomination.

10. Moraga states that her essay, "Out of Our Revolutionary Minds Toward a Pedagogy of Revolt" can be interpreted as a form of _____________________.
(a) Liberalism.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Racism.
(d) Anti-intellectualism.

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

12. When had Moraga first heard the story of La Mujer Llorena?
(a) When she was a little girl.
(b) When she was 27.
(c) When she graduated high school.
(d) When she was in college.

13. According to Moraga, who does intellectualism serve?
(a) Ministers.
(b) Students.
(c) Universities.
(d) The ruling class.

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

15. According to Moraga, the university system in America is interested only in producing ____________________.
(a) Public relations.
(b) Athletes.
(c) Wealthy alumni.
(d) More docile citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Repression can lead to a life of _______________.

2. Proponents of post-modernism are notorious for using _____________________.

3. Who was the writer who wrote that the United States-Mexican border was a "1,950-mile-long open wound"?

4. According to Moraga, one of the many problems of academia is its obsession with _______________.

5. Assuming that works of art that are not built upon Western foundations and structures have no value is intrinsically ethnocentric and ______________.

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