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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the footnotes for Jo Carrillo's poem "Beyond the Cliffs of Abiquiu," to what land is the poem dedicated?
(a) All Americans.
(b) Native Inhabitants.
(c) Forestry.
(d) A National Sacrifice area for energy.

3. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) Flordia.
(b) Virginia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

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

5. According to an essay by Rosario Morales in April 1980, by what does "this society" divides us?
(a) Gender.
(b) Culture.
(c) Color.
(d) Sexuality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?
(a) Owls.
(b) Gun fire.
(c) Sirens.
(d) School children.

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

14. Where was the author of "La Guera"'s mother born?
(a) Santa Paula.
(b) Oakland.
(c) San Jose.
(d) Stockton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According the Doris Davenport, why is the feminist movement racist?

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

3. What book did Mary Daly send to Audre Lorde?

4. What word have feminists "had it with"?

5. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?

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