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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?
(a) She split her lip open.
(b) She was attacked by a dog.
(c) She fell off of a roof.
(d) She broke her leg.

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

4. Who wrote out the checks for the author's mother when she was at the grocery store? ("La Guera")
(a) Her son.
(b) The cashier.
(c) The author.
(d) Her husband.

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

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

7. What does the author want to make changes in, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?
(a) Personal culture.
(b) Her family.
(c) Society as a whole.
(d) Man made disasters.

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

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

10. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Rich.
(d) Famous.

11. From the poem "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You," what do "white sisters" love to own?
(a) Authority.
(b) The promise that they are better than others.
(c) Pictures of "us."
(d) Modern slaves.

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

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

14. "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) Mixed.
(b) Violent.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Determined.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "It's In My Blood, My Face- My mother's Voice, The Way I Sweat"?

2. What must one do to become visible, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?

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

4. "For it is only under a patriarchal structure that _____________ is the only social power open to women," according to Audra Lorde.

5. According to Chrystos, what is no longer considered a tool that can eliminate racism?

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