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

Multiple Choice 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"?
(a) Barbara Smith.
(b) Chrystos.
(c) Mitsuye Yamada.
(d) Maxine Hong Kingston.

2. Who wrote "Wonder Woman"?
(a) Hattie Gossett.
(b) Kim Chernin.
(c) Genny Lim.
(d) Kat Long.

3. How does Doris Davenport write "women"?
(a) Wimmin.
(b) Whimmyn.
(c) Wymyn.
(d) Wymin.

4. What does "la guera" mean?
(a) Fair-skinned.
(b) Black.
(c) Dark-skinned.
(d) White.

5. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

6. Where was the author of "La Guera"'s mother born?
(a) Santa Paula.
(b) San Jose.
(c) Stockton.
(d) Oakland.

7. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?
(a) Toni Bambara.
(b) Cherrie Moraga.
(c) Merlin Stone.
(d) Donna Rushin.

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

9. "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."
(a) Determined.
(b) Mixed.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Violent.

10. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" see on sidewalks?
(a) Bits of glass.
(b) Trash.
(c) Torn photos.
(d) Flowers.

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

12. According to Judit Moschkovich, where is a great deal of information on Latin American available?
(a) Cultural studies courses.
(b) Feminist writings.
(c) On-line.
(d) Libraries.

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

14. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her dog.
(d) Her daughter.

15. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?
(a) February.
(b) October.
(c) December.
(d) April.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is quoted at the beginning of "La Guera"?

2. According to Cherrie Moraga, what does lesbianism equal in "this country"?

3. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?

4. Where did the author of "La Guera's" mother work while lying about her age?

5. Who wrote "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?

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