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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 "braceros" mean?
(a) Oppressed.
(b) Enslaved.
(c) Wet-backs.
(d) White-skins.

2. "For it is only under a patriarchal structure that _____________ is the only social power open to women," according to Audra Lorde.
(a) Maternity.
(b) Gossip.
(c) Education.
(d) Feminism.

3. Of what race is Gloria?
(a) Indian.
(b) Chicana.
(c) African American.
(d) Spanish.

4. "We are women from all kinds of ____________________ streets." This statement is taken from Moraga's "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism."
(a) Violent.
(b) Determined.
(c) Mixed.
(d) Childhood.

5. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with American culture?
(a) Chicana.
(b) Afro-American.
(c) Native American.
(d) Anglo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the narrator's mother when she was the main support of her family? ("La Guera")

2. Where did the author of "La Guera's" mother work while lying about her age?

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

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happened to Naomi Littlebear when she ran home after being attacked as a little girl?

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

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

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

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

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

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