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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Moraga, America is not interested in producing ________________.
(a) Revolutionaries.
(b) Oil.
(c) Militants.
(d) Saints.

3. Moraga feels that ___________ which is/are based on some specific minority culture seems doomed to failure in America.
(a) television programs.
(b) organizations.
(c) athletes.
(d) art.

4. What is the extreme goal of White Supremacists?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Extermination.
(c) Integration.
(d) Aggression.

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

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

7. 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"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Simile.

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

9. Who was the writer who wrote that the United States-Mexican border was a "1,950-mile-long open wound"?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Gloria Allred.
(c) Gloria Anzaldua.
(d) Gloria Steinem.

10. According to Moraga, the abstractness of academia has a/an _______________ effect.
(a) Calming.
(b) Revolutionary.
(c) Invigorating.
(d) Neutralizing.

11. Chicana sexism is largely based upon the notion of _____________.
(a) Betrayal.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Education.
(d) Class.

12. According to Moraga, whose language is the oppressor in American society?
(a) Liberals.
(b) Conservatives.
(c) White, upper-class men.
(d) The government.

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

14. 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.

15. Women are discriminated against dependent upon which of the following situations?
(a) All of these.
(b) Economic.
(c) Social.
(d) Cultural.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Moraga, the educational system in America is flawed because it is dominated by _____________________________.

2. According to Moraga, schools are controlled by the government which has no interest in informing students about a heritage which might conflict with mythologies about ______________ glorious history.

3. According to Paz, the chingada is the ____________ partner.

4. To what does the feminist movement neglect to pay attention?

5. Moraga reasons that the woman and the lesbian who killed the woman's children were reacting against ___________.

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