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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. "Your skin must be sensitive for the lightest _____________ and thick enough to ward off the ___________________." ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")
(a) Breath and strikes.
(b) Touch and demons.
(c) Compliment and disgrace.
(d) Kiss and sneers.

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

3. According to Mirtha Quintanales, what is racism?
(a) A Big Monster.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) A problem that will never go away.
(d) Unrealistic.

4. What does Chrystos want to give "you"? ("Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading")
(a) The first bloom from a cactus.
(b) A wave from the ocean.
(c) A wind to fill your sails.
(d) The first daffodil opening.

5. Who wrote the following: "I do not believe/our wants have made all our lies/holy"?
(a) Audre Lorde.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Ai.
(d) Cherrie Moraga.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Malintzin?

3. Who wrote the book "Bloodroots"?

4. According to Barbara Smith, what does one woman state as the reason for not watching television?

5. Who was Gloria Anzaldua's first love?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. How did Gloria Anzaldua describe herself as "Shiva"?

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

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

10. 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?

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