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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. Who is quoted at the beginning of "Children Passing in the Streets" as saying, "I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes"?
(a) Chrystos.
(b) Maxine Hong Kingston.
(c) Mitsuye Yamada.
(d) Barbara Smith.

2. What does "braceros" mean?
(a) Oppressed.
(b) White-skins.
(c) Enslaved.
(d) Wet-backs.

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

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

5. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?
(a) February.
(b) December.
(c) October.
(d) April.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator of "Wonder Woman" reflect about other women doing the same things as she does?

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

3. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?

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

5. Who wrote "La Guera"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the woman in Lee's "on not bein" marry the first man who proposed?

3. How do the poems "When I Was Growing Up" and "on not being" differ by point-of-view?

4. According to Audre Lorde, what was the diversion task of black and third world women?

5. What is the common theme that all of the writings from the section titled "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism" have in common?

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

7. According to Emma Goldman from Cherrie Moraga's "La Guera," how must one gain a philosophy from any event?

8. What is the meaning behind "Wonder Woman"?

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

10. What did Cherrie Moraga ask Aurora Levins Morales to write about, and what did Morales choose to write about?

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