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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What taught Cherrie Moraga that "we are not human beings"?
(a) Her Chicana heritage.
(b) Her lesbianism.
(c) Her oppression for being female.
(d) Her failure in school.

2. When was "La Guera" written?
(a) September, 1979.
(b) October, 1963.
(c) July, 1956.
(d) January, 1990.

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

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

5. According to the introduction of "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You: Racism in the Women's Movement," women of color are veterans of____________.
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Class and color war.
(c) Diminished self-worth.
(d) Supremacist ideals.

6. Who wrote "The Brown Menace/Poem to the Survival of Roaches"?
(a) Gayl Jones.
(b) Audre Lorde.
(c) Tee Corinne.
(d) Hattie Gossett.

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

8. Of what race is Gloria?
(a) Chicana.
(b) Indian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) African American.

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

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

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

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

13. How does Doris Davenport write "women"?
(a) Wimmin.
(b) Whimmyn.
(c) Wymyn.
(d) Wymin.

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

15. Where did the author of "La Guera's" mother work while lying about her age?
(a) A sandwich shop.
(b) A racetrack.
(c) A factory.
(d) A grocery store.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?

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

3. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?

4. According to Cherrie Moraga, what does lesbianism equal in "this country"?

5. According to the footnotes for Jo Carrillo's poem "Beyond the Cliffs of Abiquiu," to what land is the poem dedicated?

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