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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor does Gloria Anzaldua use to compare writing to?
(a) "The mouth of the dragon."
(b) "The wind that fills the sails."
(c) "The green of the earth."
(d) "The tiger riding our backs."

2. What taught Cherrie Moraga that "we are not human beings"?
(a) Her oppression for being female.
(b) Her lesbianism.
(c) Her failure in school.
(d) Her Chicana heritage.

3. What does Gloria Anzaldua say that women have to lose?
(a) Only their sanity.
(b) Nothing, they never had any privileges.
(c) Only their souls.
(d) Everything.

4. According to the author of "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman," what do "we" do when we put "acts of God" on an equal playing field with man?
(a) "Spit on religious tradition."
(b) "Choose to ignore honesty."
(c) "Shrug off personal responsibility."
(d) "Laugh in the face of humanity."

5. What was the name of the anthology that the author of "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman" taught for a segment of Ethnic American Literature?
(a) "Aiiieeeee!"
(b) "Topography of War."
(c) "Voices Wandered: An Anthology of Poetry Art by Asian American Youth."
(d) "Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings."

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?

2. To whom is Merle Woo's letter written to? (January, 1980)

3. From what does writing save Gloria Anzaldua?

4. Barbara Smith says there is no such thing as ___________________.

5. "For it is only under a patriarchal structure that _____________ is the only social power open to women," according to Audra Lorde.

(see the answer key)

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