1. What does the author want to make changes in, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?
(a) Society as a whole.
(b) Man made disasters.
(c) Her family.
(d) Personal culture.

2. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?
(a) For their success in school.
(b) For their fair skin.
(c) For their success in following the rules of white society.
(d) For their rigidity following mainstream thought.

3. What does "braceros" mean?
(a) Enslaved.
(b) Wet-backs.
(c) Oppressed.
(d) White-skins.

4. Who wrote "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?
(a) Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
(b) Mitsuye Yamada.
(c) Wendy Law-Yone.
(d) Gish Jen.

5. What does the author who was quoted at the beginning of "La Guera" hope that women can make their own?
(a) Culture.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Lives and experiences.
(d) Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is quoted at the beginning of "Children Passing in the Streets" as saying, "I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes"?

2. Who wrote "La Guera"?

3. According to the introduction, for whom do Third World women put themselves on the line for?

4. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?

5. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?

(see the answer key)

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