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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 did Gloria Anzaldua claim changed her forever?
(a) Reading.
(b) Loving.
(c) Writing.
(d) Singing.

2. What kind of crisis does Hattie Gossett claim there is at the time of her book's release?
(a) World-wide literacy crisis.
(b) National employment crisis.
(c) National literacy crisis.
(d) World-wide employment crisis.

3. What metaphor does Gloria Anzaldua use to compare writing to?
(a) "The tiger riding our backs."
(b) "The wind that fills the sails."
(c) "The mouth of the dragon."
(d) "The green of the earth."

4. As stated by the Combahee River Collective, what did "smart" equal?
(a) Sneaky.
(b) Powerless.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Powerful.

5. Who was Gloria Anzaldua's first love?
(a) A Poodle.
(b) A Collie.
(c) A German Shepherd.
(d) A Corgi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nellie Wong bring up Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton?

2. What is no black person in this country surprised about? (Smith/Smith dialogue)

3. What do women of color dare to show the world? ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")

4. "Feminism for you means working for the equality and humanity of women and men, for children, for the _________________ that is possible." (Nellie Wong)

5. According to the Combahee River Collective, what did they claim as being recognized as being enough?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Cherrie Moraga, in the poem "The Welder," state that she was a welder and not an alchemist?

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. What did Beverly Smith claim was the problem with analyzing problems within the women's movement?

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

9. What did the concrete objects in the poem "Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading" represent in reality?

10. What did Michelle Wallace, as noted by the Combahee River Colective, state about the struggle to change the Black woman's condition?

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