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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 is a misogynist?
(a) Someone who does puzzles.
(b) Someone who hates women.
(c) Someone who is an expert in Greek mythology.
(d) Someone who collects stamps.

2. Moraga found that when she first started having sex with women she was assuming the role of ______________.
(a) Mentor.
(b) Chingon.
(c) Protector.
(d) Chingada.

3. What has Moraga written that seem to be doomed to critical failure in America?
(a) Documentaries.
(b) Essays.
(c) Novels.
(d) Plays.

4. According to Moraga, America is not interested in producing ________________.
(a) Revolutionaries.
(b) Saints.
(c) Oil.
(d) Militants.

5. In Chicano culture, a lesbian is considered to be __________________.
(a) A misguided person.
(b) A mistake of nature.
(c) An outlaw.
(d) An unbalanced person.

Short Answer Questions

1. La Mujer Llorena is sentenced to spend eternity looking for ____________.

2. According to Moraga, the abstractness of academia has a/an _______________ effect.

3. Women are discriminated against dependent upon which of the following situations?

4. The right to passion drives which one of the following?

5. Moraga feels that ___________ which is/are based on some specific minority culture seems doomed to failure in America.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Moraga feel is the source of the problems with primary education?

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

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

5. 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?

6. What is the distinction made between two partners in any sexual act as defined by Octavio Paz in "A Long Line of Vendidas"?

7. Why does Moraga believe it is vital for artists to continue to create art that reflects their own cultural identities?

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

9. Why does Moraga say that minority culture art is almost destined to fail in America?

10. Who is Malinche and why to Mexicans despise her?

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