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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. 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.

2. "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) Mixed.
(b) Violent.
(c) Determined.
(d) Childhood.

3. According to the introduction of "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You: Racism in the Women's Movement," women of color are veterans of____________.
(a) Class and color war.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Diminished self-worth.
(d) Supremacist ideals.

4. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?
(a) Famous.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Rich.

5. What taught Cherrie Moraga that "we are not human beings"?
(a) Her Chicana heritage.
(b) Her oppression for being female.
(c) Her failure in school.
(d) Her lesbianism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What must one do to become visible, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?

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

4. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?

5. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with Latin culture?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Barbara Smith's "inherent definition of feminism"? (According to the introduction of "An d When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You")

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In the poem "When I was Growing Up," what was life like for Nellie Wong?

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

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