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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what does writing save Gloria Anzaldua?
(a) Her past.
(b) The complacency she fears.
(c) The lies that have been told about her.
(d) The life that she is running from.

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

3. When Gloria Anzaldua was born, what did Mamagranda Locha look for on her?
(a) Signs of whiteness.
(b) A sign of greatness.
(c) Mulatto blood.
(d) A birthmark in the shape of a star.

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

5. When did the Combahee River Collective first begin to meet?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1964.

6. The introduction to "El Mundo Zurdo: The Vision" relates that Third Women are especially vulnerable to____________.
(a) The righting of the left-handed world.
(b) The submission that turns a face blue with anger.
(c) The many headed demon of oppression.
(d) The oppression of men.

7. What does Cherrie Moraga claim is possible in the poem "The Welder"?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Love of all.
(c) Power.
(d) Fusion.

8. What humorous answer does Barbara Smith give to the following question that her sister poses to her: "Is there any oppression that women experience that is that total, in other words literally affects their physical well-being on a day to day basis?
(a) Heterosexuality.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Cleaning.

9. What drives Barbara Smith crazy, according to the "Sister-to-Sister Dialogue"?
(a) Life not being fair.
(b) Women being taken for granted.
(c) Black women taking steretypical jobs.
(d) White women choosing not to finish school.

10. What relationships are important to Gloria Anzaldua?
(a) The ones with humanity.
(b) The ones with others and self.
(c) The ones within our culture.
(d) The ones with others.

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

12. "The lesbian of color is not only invisible, she does not even __________." ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")
(a) Exist.
(b) Breathe.
(c) Prove her worthiness.
(d) Live.

13. What is a "gorra"?
(a) A sunbonnet.
(b) A grandchild.
(c) A loved one.
(d) A dress.

14. Gloria Anzaldua claims ___________split her.
(a) Her mother's beliefs.
(b) Other cultures.
(c) People's labels.
(d) Her lover's questions.

15. What is one of Gloria Anzaldua's biggest fears?
(a) Failing her mother.
(b) Failing as a writer.
(c) Sending out the wrong message to young women.
(d) Betraying herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Barbara Smith, what book did African American students have a hard time believing was about "white people"?

2. What is the NBFO?

3. What does Gloria Anzaldua say women of color cannot allow?

4. According to Barbara Smith, what does one woman state as the reason for not watching television?

5. Mirtha Quintanales claims that there is no such thing as __________.

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