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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) Flordia.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Virginia.

2. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with American culture?
(a) Afro-American.
(b) Chicana.
(c) Anglo.
(d) Native American.

3. Who is quoted at the beginning of "La Guera"?
(a) May Swenson.
(b) Judith Wright.
(c) Susan Howe.
(d) Emma Goldman.

4. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with Latin culture?
(a) Spanish cultures.
(b) European Latin cultures.
(c) Latin American cultures.
(d) Island cultures.

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

6. Rosario Morales claims that color and class do not define what two things?
(a) Quality of education and money.
(b) People or politics.
(c) People and culture.
(d) Success and failure.

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

8. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?
(a) Erica Jong.
(b) Ekaterina Sedia.
(c) Cherrie Moraga.
(d) Rita M. Gross.

9. According to the introduction of "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You: Racism in the Women's Movement," women of color are veterans of____________.
(a) Diminished self-worth.
(b) Supremacist ideals.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Class and color war.

10. Who confided in Cherrie Moraga that he felt she didn't trust him because he was a male?
(a) Her brother.
(b) A gay friend.
(c) Her college mentor.
(d) Her father.

11. Of what race is Gloria?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Indian.
(c) African American.
(d) Chicana.

12. According to a reference to another author in "La Guera," where must one look to find the dream?
(a) The ego.
(b) The nightmare.
(c) To the past.
(d) The inner self.

13. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?
(a) Blackberries.
(b) Hershey's kisses.
(c) Needles.
(d) Pillows.

14. What does Audre Lorde consider wasted energy, as related in"An Open Letter To Mary Daly"?
(a) Speaking to white women about racism.
(b) Speaking to feminists about racism.
(c) Trying to be a feminist.
(d) Trying to change racism.

15. What is Latin American culture dominated by as related in "But I know You, American Woman"?
(a) American mass culture.
(b) Spanish culture.
(c) European culture.
(d) Native American culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?

2. "Women who must sell _________________ for pennies a day" is a quote from "Wonder Woman."

3. According to the footnotes for Jo Carrillo's poem "Beyond the Cliffs of Abiquiu," to what land is the poem dedicated?

4. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?

5. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?

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