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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?
(a) Rosario Morales.
(b) Toni Morrison.
(c) Lynne Hanley.
(d) Patricia Smith.

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

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

9. Who is quoted at the beginning of "La Guera"?
(a) Susan Howe.
(b) Emma Goldman.
(c) Judith Wright.
(d) May Swenson.

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

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

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

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

14. In "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?
(a) If they notice her the way she notices them.
(b) If they wish to be someone else.
(c) If they are afraid of who they are.
(d) If they share her dreams.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote out the checks for the author's mother when she was at the grocery store? ("La Guera")

3. According to Judit Moschkovich, what happens when a person denies who they are, where they come from, and how they feel?

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

5. What "problem" is addressed in the first section of the book?

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