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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. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" see on sidewalks?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Torn photos.
(c) Trash.
(d) Bits of glass.

2. Who wrote "La Guera"?
(a) Cherrie Moragaa.
(b) Marina Tsvetaeva.
(c) Anna Maria Lenngren.
(d) Mary Collier.

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

4. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?
(a) Pillows.
(b) Blackberries.
(c) Needles.
(d) Hershey's kisses.

5. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?
(a) Female.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?

3. How does Doris Davenport write "women"?

4. According to Cherrie Moraga, what does lesbianism equal in "this country"?

5. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Doris Davenport state that racist white feminists were powerless, spineless, and invisible?

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

4. What did Aurora Levins Morales decide was the issue that she had with Piri Thomas' book "Down These Mean Streets"?

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

6. In the poem "When I was Growing Up," what was life like for Nellie Wong?

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

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

9. When did Mitsuye Yamada say that Asian Pacific American women would speak out?

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

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