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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) Simile.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Foreshadowing.

8. According to Moraga, most white people in America do not know ____________________.
(a) The time of day.
(b) How to help others.
(c) The nationality of their ancestors.
(d) Anything about Hispanics.

9. Moraga reasons that the woman and the lesbian who killed the woman's children were reacting against ___________.
(a) Society.
(b) Motherhood.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Men.

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

11. Why were the woman the lesbian who killed the woman's children reacting against motherhood as such?
(a) It was patriarchal imposition that forced them into a role.
(b) They did not want to be single mothers.
(c) They wanted to adopt kids instead.
(d) They did not want to be married.

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

13. Moraga found that when she first started having sex with women she was assuming the role of ______________.
(a) Protector.
(b) Mentor.
(c) Chingon.
(d) Chingada.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Octavio Paz?

2. When Moraga worked at a restaurant, a lesbian would teach her about which of the following?

3. Various codes of sexual morality, especially the institution of marriage, are founded on the masculine desire to __________________.

4. What does Moraga feel is artificial and a product of society?

5. According to Moraga, the problems with primary education are mainly related to ____________________.

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