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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the "whirring voice" in Rosario Morales' voice inside her head tell her?
(a) "You will do great things."
(b) "Stop. This is not your fight alone."
(c) "The change is comming."
(d) "You don't belong."

2. According to "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance," in the Black world, who are the two free people in the United States?
(a) White men and black women.
(b) Black men and white women.
(c) Black men and women.
(d) White men and women.

3. What do women of color dare to show the world? ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")
(a) Their honesty.
(b) Their pride in their culture.
(c) Human flesh and the red of their blood.
(d) Their power.

4. What does NWSA stand for?
(a) Not Willing to Say Anything.
(b) Need Women Saying All.
(c) National Women's Studies Association.
(d) National White Studies Agendas.

5. What does Hattie Gossett claim nobody cares about in the '80s?
(a) Living morally.
(b) Giving back to society.
(c) Black folks.
(d) Writing.

6. What is the brown thigh bone carved with in "Give Me Back"?
(a) The bare fingers of a woman.
(b) The teeth of a babe.
(c) An eagle's beak.
(d) A rock from the ocean.

7. What does Chrystos pass around the circle in her poem "Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading"?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A leaf.
(c) A shell.
(d) A rock.

8. Mirtha Quintanales claims that there is no such thing as __________.
(a) Honesty.
(b) Community.
(c) A melting pot.
(d) Racism.

9. According to Gloria Anzaldua, who said, "Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage."
(a) Ai.
(b) Naomi Littlebear.
(c) Barbara Smith.
(d) Cherrie Moraga.

10. What story is the monkey from that Gloria Anzaldua referenced in "La Prieta"?
(a) "Puff Goes the Monkey."
(b) "Sufi."
(c) "Primal Attraction."
(d) "Monkey Learns to Chaperone Pigs."

11. Gloria Anzaldua claims that women of color need to stop being compared to __________.
(a) Medusas.
(b) Demons.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Dying trees.

12. What does Chrystos use to "mark out the space I am"?
(a) Water.
(b) Knives.
(c) Wind.
(d) Blood.

13. What did Naomi Littlebear say she tried to exorcise?
(a) Demons of love.
(b) Demons of hatred.
(c) Demons of racism.
(d) Demons of communication.

14. Cheryl Clarke identifies a lesbian as ________________.
(a) A woman who denies her sexuality.
(b) A woman who proves she is.
(c) A woman who dislikes men.
(d) A woman who says she is.

15. In "La Prieta," what are "old selves" compared to?
(a) A ratty t-shirt.
(b) A favorite pair of jeans.
(c) A first love.
(d) An old shoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does writing save Gloria Anzaldua?

2. What is the NBFO?

3. According to Gloria Anzaldua, fears act like __________.

4. What is the rape of Black women by white men considered by the Combahee River Collective?

5. Why does Nellie Wong bring up Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton?

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