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

2. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?
(a) Toni Bambara.
(b) Cherrie Moraga.
(c) Donna Rushin.
(d) Merlin Stone.

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

4. "All our saints have a few taints of _________," according to "Millicent Fredericks."
(a) Sin.
(b) Blood.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Honesty.

5. According to a reference to another author in "La Guera," where must one look to find the dream?
(a) The nightmare.
(b) The ego.
(c) The inner self.
(d) To the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Women who must sell _________________ for pennies a day" is a quote from "Wonder Woman."

2. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?

3. From the poem "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You," what do "white sisters" love to own?

4. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Given that Judit Moschovich did not equate "American" with imperialistic and racist, what did she equate "American" with?

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

4. According to Emma Goldman from Cherrie Moraga's "La Guera," how must one gain a philosophy from any event?

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

6. What did Doris Davenport describe as Black "wimmin's "aversion to white "wimmin"?

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

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

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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