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

2. What does Chrystos declare that she is afraid of in "I Don't Understand Those Who Have Turned Away From Me"?
(a) White people.
(b) Her own culture.
(c) Indians.
(d) Men.

3. "Light was _________," according to the narrator in "La Guera."
(a) Wrong.
(b) Right.
(c) Truth.
(d) Hate.

4. Who wrote "on not bein"?
(a) Imamu Amiri Baraka.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Mary Hope Lee.
(d) Ai.

5. What book did Mary Daly send to Audre Lorde?
(a) "The Church and the Second Sex."
(b) "Gyn/Ecology."
(c) "Quintessence... Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto."
(d) "Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation."

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rosario Morales, who is capable of being racist?

2. Why was the author of "La Guera" pulled out of school at the ages of five, seven, nine, and eleven?

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

4. According to Audre Lorde, what must exist for liberation to exist?

5. Who wrote "Wonder Woman"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Given that Judit Moschovich did not equate "American" with imperialistic and racist, what did she equate "American" with?

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

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

7. What does Rosario Morales say that she is in "I am What I Am"?

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

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

10. What did Aurora Levins Morales' friend Ceci say must change for things to be different so the daughters of Latinos could be free?

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