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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 happened on August 6, 1941, just four days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
(a) Billie Holiday's "Ella, Lena And Billie" came out.
(b) Billie Holiday's "Story Volume 2" was made.
(c) Billie Holiday's "Lady Day" was made.
(d) Billie Holiday's "Distinctive Song Stylings" came out.

2. What is the NBFO?
(a) The Negro-Based Feminist Organization.
(b) The National Black Feminist Organization.
(c) The National Bisexual Founders Organization.
(d) The New Belief in Freedom Organization.

3. According to "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers," what do "white eyes" not bother to learn?
(a) Our culture.
(b) Our language.
(c) Our humanity.
(d) Our past.

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

5. According to Gloria Anzaldua, who said, "Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage."
(a) Barbara Smith.
(b) Naomi Littlebear.
(c) Cherrie Moraga.
(d) Ai.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first piece of Hattie Gossett's book "my soul looks back in wonder/wild wimmin don't get no blues" written?

2. How does a woman who chooses to be a lesbian, according to Cheryl Clarke, live?

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

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

5. What did Hattie Gossett claim "is really a drag"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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")

3. Why did the Combahee River Collective believe that they needed a collection of Black feminist writing?

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

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

6. Why did Luisah Teish claim that men always put down herbal remedies? (From her interview with Gloria Anzaldua.)

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

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

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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