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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 nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?
(a) British.
(b) American.
(c) Irish.
(d) Finnish.

2. Where was the author of "La Guera"'s mother born?
(a) Stockton.
(b) Oakland.
(c) Santa Paula.
(d) San Jose.

3. What does "la guera" mean?
(a) White.
(b) Fair-skinned.
(c) Dark-skinned.
(d) Black.

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

5. Who wrote "When I Was Growing Up"?
(a) Phillis Wheatley.
(b) Rita Dove.
(c) Qui Jin.
(d) Nellie Wong.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Doris Davenport, what is wrong with the word "racism"?

2. According to an essay by Rosario Morales in April 1980, by what does "this society" divides us?

3. Who wrote "La Guera"?

4. According to Rosario Morales, who is capable of being racist?

5. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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