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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?
(a) Marilyn French.
(b) Sandy Boucher.
(c) Marleen Barr.
(d) Ntozake Shange.

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

3. What does the narrator say she is in "I Am What I Am"?
(a) A Spaniard.
(b) An African American.
(c) A U.S. American.
(d) A Mexican.

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

5. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?
(a) If she is content.
(b) If she is afraid.
(c) If she is an alcholic.
(d) If she is happy.

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

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

8. According to Judit Moschkovich, where is a great deal of information on Latin American available?
(a) Cultural studies courses.
(b) Feminist writings.
(c) Libraries.
(d) On-line.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Between what two things does Chrystos believe that women of color must make a choice?
(a) Womanhood and motherhood.
(b) Love of place and love of self.
(c) Culture and Americanism.
(d) Ethnicity and womanhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with Latin culture?

2. What does "la guera" mean?

3. What does the narrator croon in "I Am What I Am"?

4. 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?

5. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with American culture?

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