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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. How many months did it take for Hattie Gossett to edit her book "my soul looks back in wonder/wild wimmin don't get no blues" written?
(a) Twelve months.
(b) One month.
(c) Three months.
(d) Seven months.

2. "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) Kiss and sneers.
(b) Touch and demons.
(c) Breath and strikes.
(d) Compliment and disgrace.

3. According to Cheryl Clarke, how many different kinds of lesbians are there?
(a) There is only one kind of lesbian.
(b) There are two types of lesbians.
(c) There is not only one kind of lesbian.
(d) There are four specific types of lesbians.

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

5. According to "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance," in the Black world, who are the two free people in the United States?
(a) Black men and white women.
(b) White men and women.
(c) White men and black women.
(d) Black men and women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does Gloria Anzaldua use to compare writing to?

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

3. What humorous answer does Barbara Smith give to the following question that her sister poses to her: "Is there any oppression that women experience that is that total, in other words literally affects their physical well-being on a day to day basis?

4. What does Hattie Gossett claim nobody cares about in the '80s?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. How did Cherrie Moraga describe the similarities and differences between Third World women writers?

8. Why does Gloria Anzaldua write?

9. According to Gloria Anzaldua, what did she believe that white men expected of Third World women if they wanted to make it in a "right-handed world"?

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

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