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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Class and color war.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Supremacist ideals.

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

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

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

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

6. What book did Mary Daly send to Audre Lorde?
(a) "Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation."
(b) "Quintessence... Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto."
(c) "The Church and the Second Sex."
(d) "Gyn/Ecology."

7. According to Rosario Morales, who is capable of being racist?
(a) Everyone.
(b) Only whites.
(c) Only women.
(d) Only those whom carry superiority complexes.

8. What does the narrator croon in "I Am What I Am"?
(a) Carlos Gardel tangoes.
(b) Skitzo rap.
(c) Rafael Ithier poetry.
(d) Jorge Arraiza songs.

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

10. According to "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House," what must "divide and conquer" become in the world?
(a) Educate and categorize.
(b) Love and accept.
(c) Define and empower.
(d) Stand and fight.

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

12. Who wrote "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?
(a) Mitsuye Yamada.
(b) Wendy Law-Yone.
(c) Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
(d) Gish Jen.

13. Who wrote "It's In My Blood, My Face- My mother's Voice, The Way I Sweat"?
(a) Shirley Chisholm.
(b) Anita Valerio.
(c) Clare Boothe Luce.
(d) Evelyn Cunningham.

14. "For it is only under a patriarchal structure that _____________ is the only social power open to women," according to Audra Lorde.
(a) Feminism.
(b) Gossip.
(c) Maternity.
(d) Education.

15. According to Chrystos, what is no longer considered a tool that can eliminate racism?
(a) Culturalism.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the introduction, for whom do Third World women put themselves on the line for?

2. "Light was _________," according to the narrator in "La Guera."

3. Who staffs the Buen Muir Indian Trading Post?

4. What is Latin American culture dominated by as related in "But I know You, American Woman"?

5. Why does Chrystos claim that white women are so rarely loyal?

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