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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?
(a) For their rigidity following mainstream thought.
(b) For their fair skin.
(c) For their success in school.
(d) For their success in following the rules of white society.

3. According to Cherrie Moraga, what does lesbianism equal in "this country"?
(a) Misunderstanding.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Second-class citizenship.

4. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?
(a) "Martinique's Song."
(b) "Dark Voices."
(c) "Poetic Voices."
(d) "Nappy Edges."

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

6. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?
(a) Power.
(b) American.
(c) Feminist.
(d) Entity.

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

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

9. 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) Her own culture.
(d) Men.

10. Why was the author of "La Guera" pulled out of school at the ages of five, seven, nine, and eleven?
(a) To work in the fields.
(b) To work in a silk factory.
(c) To take care of her ailing mother.
(d) To work in a factory.

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

12. What does Gabrielle Daniels claim is the only thing for which Millicent would rise?
(a) Family.
(b) The sake of art.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Self-idealization.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who staffs the Buen Muir Indian Trading Post?

2. How old was the narrator's mother when she was the main support of her family? ("La Guera")

3. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?

4. Where does the narrator of "Wonder Woman" reflect about other women doing the same things as she does?

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

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