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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. Who is Octavio Paz?
(a) A Mexican athlete.
(b) A Mexican singer.
(c) A Mexican author.
(d) A Mexican politician.

2. Moraga reasons that the woman and the lesbian who killed the woman's children were reacting against ___________.
(a) Motherhood.
(b) Men.
(c) Society.
(d) Marriage.

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

4. A Chicana mother's adoration of her sons is an unconscious attempt to turn them into _______________________.
(a) Candidates for the priesthood.
(b) Better family men.
(c) The kind of man they wished they had married.
(d) Independent thinkers.

5. According to Moraga, the university system in America is interested only in producing ____________________.
(a) Athletes.
(b) Public relations.
(c) More docile citizens.
(d) Wealthy alumni.

Short Answer Questions

1. Repression can lead to a life of _______________.

2. 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"?

3. According to Moraga, most white people in America do not know ____________________.

4. What does Moraga feel is artificial and a product of society?

5. According to Paz, the chingada is the ____________ partner.

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain one of the myths of lesbian sexuality regarding penetration and how Moraga's own experiences go against it.

2. Why are sexually liberated women, and to a greater degree, lesbians, denigrated in Chicano society?

3. According to Moraga, how can the feminist movement be considered racist?

4. Why does Moraga feel the feminist movement may be doomed to failure?

5. What are the circumstances that make the myth of La Mujer Llorena come alive for Moraga?

6. According to Moraga, what can repression lead to in almost every Chicana's life?

7. What does Moraga think might be the deep, real reason that women kill their children?

8. What does Moraga say was one of the defining characteristics of the Civil Rights movement and why does that factor improve chances for success for any movement?

9. Who is La Mujer Llorena and what is her story?

10. According to Moraga, what is the university system only interested in producing?

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