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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Doris Davenport, what is wrong with the word "racism"?
(a) Too accepted.
(b) Too much incorrect history.
(c) Too general and simplistic.
(d) Too specific.

2. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?
(a) Marleen Barr.
(b) Sandy Boucher.
(c) Ntozake Shange.
(d) Marilyn French.

3. Who did the subject from "on not bein" marry?
(a) Her parent's choice of husband.
(b) A man who made her parents mad.
(c) The first man to ask her.
(d) The man who took her virginity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?

2. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?

3. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?

4. Who wrote "La Guera"?

5. What does the narrator say she is in "I Am What I Am"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Cherrie Moraga's and Gloria Anzaldua's hopes for the book?

2. What did Cherrie Moraga state as the driving force behind compiling the book "This Bridge Called My Back"?

3. What did Cherrie Moraga state that she learned when she attended a concert where Ntosake Shange was reading?

4. What are three of the ironic questionings that Lim makes regarding women in her poem "Wonder Woman"?

5. According to Anita Valerio, how is the Okan described?

6. What happened to Naomi Littlebear when she ran home after being attacked as a little girl?

7. What is Barbara Smith's "inherent definition of feminism"? (According to the introduction of "An d When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You")

8. Why did Audre Lorde decide never to talk to white women about racism?

9. What did Doris Davenport describe as Black "wimmin's "aversion to white "wimmin"?

10. Who lives in the marrow of the narrator in "I Walk in the History of My People"?

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