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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. About what school of thought is Moraga critical in this essay?
(a) Conservatism.
(b) Post-moderism.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Independent.

6. According to Moraga, art is ____________.
(a) Political.
(b) Theory.
(c) Ethereal.
(d) Spiritual.

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

8. According to Moraga, one of the many problems of academia is its obsession with _______________.
(a) Athletes.
(b) Funding.
(c) Complex theory.
(d) Politics.

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

10. What has La Mujer Llorena's husband done?
(a) Betrayed her and drowned their children.
(b) Run away with another woman.
(c) Joined the army.
(d) Killed her father.

11. When Moraga worked at a restaurant, a lesbian would teach her about which of the following?
(a) Communism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) All of these.
(d) Extreme movements.

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

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

14. According to Moraga, true progress for racial and ___________ progress is impossible as long as white, upper-class men permeate institutions.
(a) Political.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Religious.
(d) Sexual.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The feminist movement is dominated by _____________________.

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

3. What type of relationship do White Supremacists want with blacks?

4. Who is Octavio Paz?

5. What is a misogynist?

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