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

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

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

3. Who wrote "on not bein"?
(a) Imamu Amiri Baraka.
(b) Ai.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Mary Hope Lee.

4. According to an essay by Rosario Morales in April 1980, by what does "this society" divides us?
(a) Culture.
(b) Color.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Gender.

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

6. In what year did the mother of the author of "La Guera" marry the writer's father?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1948.

7. Why does Chrystos claim that white women are so rarely loyal?
(a) They do not have to be.
(b) They think they are above everyone else.
(c) They do not know how to be.
(d) No one has shown them loyalty in return.

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

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

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

11. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?
(a) Childhoods.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Men.
(d) Parents.

12. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?
(a) School children.
(b) Owls.
(c) Sirens.
(d) Gun fire.

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

14. According to the introduction, for whom do Third World women put themselves on the line for?
(a) Their homelands.
(b) Their selves.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Their darker sisters.

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

Short Answer 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"?

2. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?

3. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?

4. What does Gabrielle Daniels claim is the only thing for which Millicent would rise?

5. What "problem" is addressed in the first section of the book?

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