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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 culture does Judit Moschkovich align with American culture?

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

3. Who is quoted at the beginning of "La Guera"?

4. According to Chrystos, what is no longer considered a tool that can eliminate racism?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to Naomi Littlebear when she ran home after being attacked as a little girl?

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

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

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

6. Name three of the problems that Doris Davenport named as part of the problem within the feminist movement?

7. Given that Judit Moschovich did not equate "American" with imperialistic and racist, what did she equate "American" with?

8. What did Aurora Levins Morales decide was the issue that she had with Piri Thomas' book "Down These Mean Streets"?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

White women are detailed, in many of the writings, as being a large part of the oppression within the women's movement. What problems, according to the writers, do white women make for women of color in the movement? How do the writers support their statements against white women in the movement? Why do these problems seem ironic for the movement?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Many times throughout the book, internal struggles are blamed for the external problems associated with the women's movement. What purpose does the internal dissection of one's self serve in the women's movement, according to the authors that chose to identify this as a problem? Based on your reading, why do you believe that some authors chose to address this problem, and some did not?

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