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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through El Mundo Zurdo: The Vision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the author of "La Guera" pulled out of school at the ages of five, seven, nine, and eleven?
(a) To work in a silk factory.
(b) To take care of her ailing mother.
(c) To work in a factory.
(d) To work in the fields.

2. Why can't Gloria Anzaldua sleep at night?
(a) Her father died.
(b) Her mother has disowned her.
(c) She has lost her lover.
(d) The mugger said he would come and get her.

3. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?
(a) White.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Black.
(d) Female.

4. What is no black person in this country surprised about? (Smith/Smith dialogue)
(a) Oppression.
(b) Racism.
(c) Education.
(d) Slavery.

5. "All our saints have a few taints of _________," according to "Millicent Fredericks."
(a) Honesty.
(b) Blood.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does being a "Yellow Feminist" mean? (Merle Woo)

2. How old was the narrator's mother when she was the main support of her family? ("La Guera")

3. What is a "gorra"?

4. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?

5. According to Nellie Wong, if one sings about woe too often the person is accused of ___________.

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