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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. Who confided in Cherrie Moraga that he felt she didn't trust him because he was a male?

2. What does Chrystos declare that she is afraid of in "I Don't Understand Those Who Have Turned Away From Me"?

3. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the poem "When I was Growing Up," what was life like for Nellie Wong?

3. Why did the woman in Lee's "on not bein" marry the first man who proposed?

4. What is Barbara Smith's "inherent definition of feminism"? (According to the introduction of "An d When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You")

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gloria Anzaldua states "The basic problem that we have had was believing somebody else's story about us." How does this explain the problems associated within the women's movement, according to the authors? What does this statement say about all races? Is there a common solution that the authors come to in regard to eliminating the problems associated with "somebody else's story"?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

There are many different references to "Left-Handed" and "Right-Handed" worlds. What is meant by both of these titles? How do different authors describe the meaning of "left-handed" and "right-handed" worlds? Why are these terms used as designations at all? What is the relevance?

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