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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. Gloria Anzaldua claims that women of color need to stop being compared to __________.
(a) Dying trees.
(b) Medusas.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Demons.

2. To what does Rosario Morales compare "protective coloring in racist fields"?
(a) Cabbage.
(b) Weeds.
(c) Shrubs.
(d) Carrots.

3. From what does writing save Gloria Anzaldua?
(a) The life that she is running from.
(b) The complacency she fears.
(c) Her past.
(d) The lies that have been told about her.

4. Why does Beverly Smith get "so frustrated"?
(a) The movement is not moving fast enough.
(b) Hate should not exist.
(c) She feels people don't understand where she came from.
(d) Life should not be lived in fear.

5. Who does Cheryl Clarke believe to be the real enemy to lesbians?
(a) Heterosexual women.
(b) Balck men.
(c) "The Man."
(d) Each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her letter to Barbara Smith, Mirtha Quintanales tells Smith about ___________.

2. According to Barbara Smith, what book did African American students have a hard time believing was about "white people"?

3. What does Chrystos pass around the circle in her poem "Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading"?

4. From "Billie lives! Billie lives!," what year has been declared the year of the bird?

5. In Cheryl Clarke's mind, what does "take care of us" equal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Gloria Anzaldua when she began to write the essay "La Prieta"?

2. What comparison did Cheryl Clarke make between lesbians and black women?

3. Why did Gloria Anzaldua claim that lesbians of color were invisible?

4. Why did Nellie Wong state that she will not stop working and writing? ("In Search of the Self As Hero: Confetti of Voices on New Year's Night")

5. What did Barbara Smith claim about many lesbians being separatists?

6. According to Cherrie Moraga's introduction to the section "Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer," what did first generation third world writers defy?

7. Describe the "smart-ugly" crystallization as described by the Combahee River Collective.

8. What does Gloria Anzaldua state is the reason that one resists the act of writing?

9. According to Gloria Anzaldua, what were the problems associated with power in her essay "La Prieta"?

10. Why did the Combahee River Collective state that they were socialists?

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