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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. La Mujer Llorena is sentenced to spend eternity looking for ____________.
(a) The moon.
(b) A good man.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her authentic self.

2. One of the myths of the lesbian movement is that lesbian sexuality is __________________________.
(a) Something that can be learned.
(b) A crime against nature.
(c) Superior to heterosexual sexuality.
(d) Altogether different from heterosexual sexuality.

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

4. In "Canto Florido" to what does Moraga liken words that are thought but never spoken?
(a) Flowers which rest on the tip of the mouth.
(b) Flowers which bloom in the spring.
(c) Florida sunsets.
(d) Songs of Florida.

5. What has La Mujer Llorena's husband done?
(a) Joined the army.
(b) Betrayed her and drowned their children.
(c) Run away with another woman.
(d) Killed her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Moraga, which is the only ethnic background that the American school system seems interested in informing students about?

2. According to Moraga, America is a country in which people are so easily _______________.

3. The feminist movement is doomed to failure if it does not __________________________.

4. According to Moraga, true progress for racial and ___________ progress is impossible as long as white, upper-class men permeate institutions.

5. According to Moraga, the university system in America is interested only in producing ____________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Canto Florido" to what does Moraga compare words that are never spoken?

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

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

6. What did Moraga learn about sexism from being raised a Chicana woman?

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

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

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

10. Why does Moraga use the feminist movement to point out how society has inherent prejudices?

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