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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 wrote out the checks for the author's mother when she was at the grocery store? ("La Guera")
(a) The cashier.
(b) The author.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her son.

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

3. According to an essay by Rosario Morales in April 1980, by what does "this society" divides us?
(a) Gender.
(b) Color.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Culture.

4. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?
(a) She broke her leg.
(b) She fell off of a roof.
(c) She was attacked by a dog.
(d) She split her lip open.

5. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?
(a) If she is content.
(b) If she is afraid.
(c) If she is an alcholic.
(d) If she is happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. "For it is only under a patriarchal structure that _____________ is the only social power open to women," according to Audra Lorde.

2. Where did the narrator of "I Am What I Am" get her English accent from?

3. According to Chrystos, what is no longer considered a tool that can eliminate racism?

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

5. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?

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 Doris Davenport describe as Black "wimmin's "aversion to white "wimmin"?

3. What did Judit Maschkovich define as American and Latin culture?

4. How did Mitsuye Yamada say that Asian Pacific American women could make themselves more visible?

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. In the introduction, Moraga defined the different sections of the book. What are they?

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