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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. The right to passion drives which one of the following?
(a) Women's movements.
(b) All of these.
(c) Economic movements.
(d) Cultural movements.

2. What does Moraga feel is artificial and a product of society?
(a) Social structure.
(b) Economies.
(c) Language.
(d) Theory.

3. What type of relationship do White Supremacists want with blacks?
(a) None at all.
(b) Just professional.
(c) Just political.
(d) Just social.

4. Most lesbians claim that a lesbian loses the desire for __________________.
(a) Penetrative sex.
(b) Romance.
(c) Dating.
(d) Tough women.

5. According to Paz, the chingon is the ___________ partner.
(a) Annoyed.
(b) Uninterested.
(c) Passive.
(d) Active.

Short Answer Questions

1. A Chicana mother's adoration of her sons is an unconscious attempt to turn them into _______________________.

2. When Moraga worked at a restaurant, a lesbian would teach her about which of the following?

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

4. Octavio Paz makes a distinction between partners in ____________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is sexism an even more complex subject than racism?

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

3. Does Moraga think it will be easy to stop the loss of cultures in schools?

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

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

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

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

8. In "Out of Our Revolutionary Minds Toward a Pedagogy of Revolt," why does Moraga state that the educational system in America is flawed?

9. What example of writer Gloria Anzaldua's work does Moraga use to point out that academia gets lost in obsessions with complex theory?

10. 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?

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