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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. What must one do to become visible, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?

2. "Women who must sell _________________ for pennies a day" is a quote from "Wonder Woman."

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

4. According to Doris Davenport, what is wrong with the word "racism"?

5. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. What questions did Anita Valerio discuss regarding the holy woman?

2. What did Aurora Levins Morales' friend Ceci say must change for things to be different so the daughters of Latinos could be free?

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

4. What is the common theme that all of the writings from the section titled "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism" have in common?

5. According to Emma Goldman from Cherrie Moraga's "La Guera," how must one gain a philosophy from any event?

6. According to Anita Valerio, how is the Okan described?

7. When did Mitsuye Yamada say that Asian Pacific American women would speak out?

8. According to Audre Lorde, what was the diversion task of black and third world women?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Lesbianism within the women's movement seems to create problems, according to many of the lesbian authors. How do they describe the difficulty of being a lesbian within the women's movement? Why do some of the authors claim that being a lesbian within the movement creates problems of its own?

Essay Topic 3

While the initial reasoning behind the women's movement were based upon problems associated with the power that men had over women, it does not seem to be limited to that singular problem any longer. What specific issues are discussed as being part of the reasoning behind the problems that the women's movement continues to face? Whom else do the authors blame for the problems that the women's movement faced/faces? Are these problems relevant, based upon the readings? Why/Why not?

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