This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You: Racism in the Women's Movement.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "Women who must sell _________________ for pennies a day" is a quote from "Wonder Woman."
(a) Their own garden items.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Shrimps.
(d) Their children.

3. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?
(a) She fell off of a roof.
(b) She broke her leg.
(c) She was attacked by a dog.
(d) She split her lip open.

4. "Light was _________," according to the narrator in "La Guera."
(a) Wrong.
(b) Right.
(c) Hate.
(d) Truth.

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) "Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings."
(b) "Voices Wandered: An Anthology of Poetry Art by Asian American Youth."
(c) "Aiiieeeee!"
(d) "Topography of War."

Short Answer Questions

1. "We are women from all kinds of ____________________ streets." This statement is taken from Moraga's "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism."

2. Between what two things does Chrystos believe that women of color must make a choice?

3. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?

4. What word have feminists "had it with"?

5. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" see on sidewalks?

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