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

2. "We challenge symptoms of the disease while neglecting the _________________," as related in "The Pathology of Racism" by Davenport.

3. Who wrote "I Am What I Am"?

4. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?

5. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with American culture?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the first section of the book speak about?

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

5. What does Rosario Morales say that she is in "I am What I Am"?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Metaphors in many of the writings showed a comparison of ideals and objects that painted a very vibrant, and sometimes disturbing, picture. Choose three to five metaphors and discuss the importance of the metaphor, the point the metaphor was making, and the use of the comparison in making the point the author wanted to make. Did the use of the metaphor work? Why/Why not?

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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