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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. What imagery does Moraga use in "Heading East" to compare how male-dominated society tries to marginalize women?
(a) A pressure cooker.
(b) A factory line.
(c) A car with a hole in one of its pipes.
(d) A retail store.

2. To what does Moraga compare herself in "Raw Experience"?
(a) A passenger on an autonomous machine.
(b) A motherless child.
(c) A rape victim.
(d) A politician.

3. What does the narrator see a woman doing in "November Again?"
(a) Riding a bike.
(b) Dancing naked on the beach.
(c) Reading a book.
(d) Cooking dinner.

4. Which of the following describes Moraga?
(a) Lesbian.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) Lapsed Catholic.
(d) All of these.

5. What part of a woman's body does Moraga talk about in "For the Color of My Mother?"
(a) Hands.
(b) Mouths.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Moraga not completely erase from her life?

2. In "It Got Her Over" who does Moraga say both receives benefits and bears guilt due to race?

3. What does Moraga say cannot be dealt with from a purely theoretical perspective?

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

5. According to Moraga, what can docile obedience do to a person?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moraga compare herself to her lover's dead brother in "No Born-Again Children?"

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

3. What does being part of a movement mean for Moraga?

4. How did leaving the Church impact Moraga?

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

6. In "La Guera" when does Moraga say that she began to understand oppression in the world?

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

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

9. What does a girl named Cecilia learn in "Later, She Met Joyce?"

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

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