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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Moraga, what can docile obedience do to a person?
(a) Humble someone.
(b) Crush someone's spirit.
(c) Give someone maturity.
(d) Teach respect.

2. In "Fear, a Love Poem" what does the narrator say has been hard for her?
(a) To get a college degree.
(b) To accept herself for who she is.
(c) To get over her last lover.
(d) To get her driver's license.

3. Cecilia thinks of everything in terms of which of the following?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Racism.
(c) All of these.
(d) Social justice.

4. Moraga's nationality is half-white and half ______________.
(a) Mexican.
(b) English.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.

5. According to Moraga's mother, a good man ___________________.
(a) Walks on the curb side of the sidewalk.
(b) Always opens the car door.
(c) Orders for the woman in a restaurant.
(d) Leads the woman in a dance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the girl who meets Joyce in "Later, She Met Joyce?"

3. The rough girl tells the boys that she _____________ but they do not understand.

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

5. What does Cecilia notice about Joyce when she sees her again after having separated?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. In "What Does it Take" what does the death of gay activist Harvey Milk prompt Moraga to wonder about the attention that men get?

3. What imagery with weapons does Moraga give men in "Anatomy Lesson?"

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

5. What is Moraga trying to say when she presents lesbians as masculine?

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

7. What aspect of her life does Moraga discuss in the introduction?

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

9. Why does a woman think about her knees in "The Pilgrimage?"

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

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