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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. Where did the narrator of "I Am What I Am" get her English accent from?

2. In "Dreams of Violence," who is lying beside the narrator in bed?

3. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did Cherrie Moraga ask Aurora Levins Morales to write about, and what did Morales choose to write about?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you feel the the book was titled "This Bridge Called My Back"? What imagery does this title set up for the book? Is it a negative or positive understanding? Why?

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 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.

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