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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. 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) Womanhood and motherhood.
(d) Culture and Americanism.

2. In "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?
(a) If they share her dreams.
(b) If they notice her the way she notices them.
(c) If they are afraid of who they are.
(d) If they wish to be someone else.

3. Why does Chrystos claim that white women are so rarely loyal?
(a) They do not know how to be.
(b) No one has shown them loyalty in return.
(c) They do not have to be.
(d) They think they are above everyone else.

4. What taught Cherrie Moraga that "we are not human beings"?
(a) Her lesbianism.
(b) Her oppression for being female.
(c) Her failure in school.
(d) Her Chicana heritage.

5. What does the author who was quoted at the beginning of "La Guera" hope that women can make their own?
(a) Society.
(b) Lives and experiences.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author of "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman," what do "we" do when we put "acts of God" on an equal playing field with man?

2. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?

3. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?

4. According to Doris Davenport, what is the cause of racism in white feminists?

5. Who is quoted at the beginning of "La Guera"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the first section of the book speak about?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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