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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 does the "whirring voice" in Rosario Morales' voice inside her head tell her?
(a) "You will do great things."
(b) "The change is comming."
(c) "You don't belong."
(d) "Stop. This is not your fight alone."

2. What did Hattie Gossett claim "is really a drag"?
(a) Writing the introduction to your own book.
(b) Telling the truth about the women's movement today.
(c) Finding one's own voice.
(d) Meditation with a guru.

3. Merle Woo claims that being a Chinese man in America makes the man a victim of _______________.
(a) Sexism and racism.
(b) Mind and body.
(c) Chinese women.
(d) All races outside of Chinese.

4. According to the Combahee River Collective, what did they claim as being recognized as being enough?
(a) Lesbian.
(b) Black.
(c) Human.
(d) American.

5. According to Nellie Wong, if one sings about woe too often the person is accused of ___________.
(a) Being "too narrow-minded."
(b) Being "too personal."
(c) Being "too weak."
(d) Being "too limited."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Gloria Anzaldua sleep at night?

2. According to Cheryl Clarke, of whom are black women envious?

3. According to the introduction of "Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer," a woman who writes has __________.

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

5. Why does Beverly Smith get "so frustrated"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did/does Barbara Smith believe that the white power structure did a good job on keeping women from bonding across racial lines?

2. What "click" did Beverly Smith claim still existed in the women's movement?

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

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. Why does Gloria Anzaldua write?

6. Why did Barbara Smith claim that "virtually no Black person in this country ...is surprised about oppression"?

7. How did Cheryl Clarke wrap up her essay "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance"?

8. Why did the poem "I sing to myself", as used by Norma Alarcon in "Chicana's Feminist Literature: A Re-Vision Through Malintzin," represent a key example for her problem with the parent-child relationship?

9. What drove Barbara Smith crazy regarding the arrogance of some white women? (Across the Kitchen Table")

10. Mirtha Quintanales stated that all humans had/have needs that must be met. What, according to Quintanales, are the circumstances under which these needs are to be met?

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