2. What is the war that Moraga talks about in "Hearts?"
(a) The Civil Rights war.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) The War on Poverty.
(d) The battle waged by oppressed groups.

3. Why is sex with her girlfriend better than sex with the male soldier?
(a) It is more than a one-night stand.
(b) It is quieter.
(c) It is more passionate and loving.
(d) It is more meaningful.

4. What makes Cecilia and Deborah leave their apartment?
(a) It was being painted.
(b) It was being fumigated.
(c) The wood floors were being refinished.
(d) It was burglarized.

5. In "You Call It, 'Amputation'" to what does Moraga compare a phantom limb?
(a) A mistake made long ago.
(b) The inability to repress one's sexuality.
(c) The loss of a lover.
(d) The death of a parent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator do in "November Again?"

2. With whom does Moraga identify in "No Born-Again Children?"

3. When they are at a friend's house, Cecilia feels like __________________________.

4. What does a crazy woman do in the restaurant where Moraga is working?

5. Many activists identify the oppressor as which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Passage", to what is Moraga referring when she says something of hers has always belonged to other people?

2. What is Moraga's message in "An Open Invitation to a Meal?"

3. What imagery of women does Moraga use in "For the Color of My Mother"?

4. How does Moraga use the metaphor of a phantom limb to describe repressed sexuality in "You Call It, 'Amputation'"?

5. In "Hearts" to what war is Moraga referring when she talks about a war no one really knew about?

6. In "Winter of Oppression, 1982" Moraga recalls seeing horrifying images of the Holocaust but why is Moraga even more shocked to see pictures of black lynchings?

7. Why does Moraga's mother ask her to speak to Moraga's father in "My Sister, Who Must Be Protected"?

8. What example does Moraga give about how she, herself, is guilty of oppressive behavior?

9. What is the dominant theme in this set of poems?

10. What is one of the main themes in this section of poems?

(see the answer keys)

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