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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?
(a) Irish.
(b) American.
(c) Finnish.
(d) British.

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

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

4. What does the author who was quoted at the beginning of "La Guera" hope that women can make their own?
(a) Culture.
(b) Society.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Lives and experiences.

5. Why does Rosario Morales carry a "pole 18 inches long"?
(a) To protect herself from 13-89 year old men.
(b) To protect herself from America.
(c) To protect herself from right-winged feminists.
(d) To maintain her right to be proud of her culture.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What "problem" is addressed in the first section of the book?
(a) Color problem.
(b) Gender problem.
(c) Writing problem.
(d) Success problem.

12. According to Doris Davenport, what is the cause of racism in white feminists?
(a) Bizarre oppression.
(b) Fear.
(c) Miseducation.
(d) Hatred of those not white.

13. What does Chrystos declare that she is afraid of in "I Don't Understand Those Who Have Turned Away From Me"?
(a) White people.
(b) Indians.
(c) Men.
(d) Her own culture.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to an essay by Rosario Morales in April 1980, by what does "this society" divides us?

2. According to a reference to another author in "La Guera," where must one look to find the dream?

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

4. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?

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

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