View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Doris Davenport, what is the cause of racism in white feminists?
(a) Fear.
(b) Miseducation.
(c) Hatred of those not white.
(d) Bizarre oppression.

3. Where did the narrator of "I Am What I Am" get her English accent from?
(a) National Geographic Channel.
(b) The BBC.
(c) Sesame Street.
(d) Gospel Songs.

4. Who confided in Cherrie Moraga that he felt she didn't trust him because he was a male?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her college mentor.
(d) A gay friend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Audre Lorde consider wasted energy, as related in"An Open Letter To Mary Daly"?

2. What does Gabrielle Daniels claim is the only thing for which Millicent would rise?

3. Who provided the scholarship for Gloria to attend the workshop on goddesses and heroines?

4. Who wrote out the checks for the author's mother when she was at the grocery store? ("La Guera")

5. Why does Rosario Morales carry a "pole 18 inches long"?

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. According to Audre Lorde, what was the diversion task of black and third world women?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Name three of the problems that Doris Davenport named as part of the problem within the feminist movement?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 938 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample