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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. "We are women from all kinds of ____________________ streets." This statement is taken from Moraga's "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism."

2. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?

3. According to Cherrie Moraga, what does lesbianism equal in "this country"?

4. Who wrote out the checks for the author's mother when she was at the grocery store? ("La Guera")

5. Who wrote "The Brown Menace/Poem to the Survival of Roaches"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who lives in the marrow of the narrator in "I Walk in the History of My People"?

2. What are three of the ironic questionings that Lim makes regarding women in her poem "Wonder Woman"?

3. In the introduction, Moraga defined the different sections of the book. What are they?

4. What is the meaning behind "Wonder Woman"?

5. How did Mitsuye Yamada say that Asian Pacific American women could make themselves more visible?

6. What did Cherrie Moraga state that she learned when she attended a concert where Ntosake Shange was reading?

7. What did Judit Maschkovich define as American and Latin culture?

8. How do the poems "When I Was Growing Up" and "on not being" differ by point-of-view?

9. Why did Audre Lorde decide never to talk to white women about racism?

10. What were Cherrie Moraga's and Gloria Anzaldua's hopes for the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the writers detail specific things that a woman of color must do to help the women's movement become just that-a women's movement. They state that there are too many issues within the movement to move forward and make a real change happen. Discuss the different points that the authors make in regard to an individual's responsibility in the movement for it too succeed.

Essay Topic 2

Time and time again, fear is a main theme by many of the authors. Discuss fear as a consistent problem associated with the women's movement. Detail different authors' perspectives on the problems associated with the existence of fear within the women's movement.

Essay Topic 3

Do you believe that any "voice"was left out of the book? What voice do you believe was omitted from the view points? Why do you believe this voice was omitted from the book? Why do you believe that this voice would have added to the tone of the theme?

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