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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 "I Am What I Am"?
(a) Rosario Morales.
(b) Lynne Hanley.
(c) Patricia Smith.
(d) Toni Morrison.

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

3. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?
(a) Men.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Parents.
(d) Childhoods.

4. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?
(a) American.
(b) Power.
(c) Feminist.
(d) Entity.

5. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?
(a) Arthur Miller.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she is in "I Am What I Am"?

2. Who confided in Cherrie Moraga that he felt she didn't trust him because he was a male?

3. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with American culture?

4. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?

5. Between what two things does Chrystos believe that women of color must make a choice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three of the ironic questionings that Lim makes regarding women in her poem "Wonder Woman"?

2. According to Anita Valerio, how is the Okan described?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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