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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 retail store.
(b) A car with a hole in one of its pipes.
(c) A pressure cooker.
(d) A factory line.

2. Cecilia and Joyce become friends and ______________.
(a) Lab partners.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Roommates.
(d) Business partners.

3. What happens to Deborah when she and Cecilia stay at a friend's house?
(a) She learns to cook.
(b) She learns to paint.
(c) She has an anxiety attack.
(d) She breaks her leg.

4. From which woman did all the women in Moraga's family want approval?
(a) Great Grandmother.
(b) Grandmother.
(c) Great Aunt.
(d) Mother.

5. The woman in "The Pilgrimage" was a child at the time and wondered about _________________.
(a) Getting mud on her legs.
(b) Losing her coat.
(c) The skin on her knees.
(d) Crying in church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Moraga shocked to see pictures of the lynching of black people?

2. What had Moraga and her mother suspected about her father?

3. Why did Catholicism make Moraga miserable?

4. In "The Slow Dance" Moraga's mother explained ______________ in terms of dancing posture.

5. Who is Cecilia's lover?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Moraga learn about her parents' relationship in "The Slow Dance"?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. To what does Moraga compare being a lesbian in "Loving in the War Years?"

9. To what does Moraga compare the sensation of falling in "The Voices of the Fallers?"

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

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