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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. How many months did it take for Hattie Gossett to edit her book "my soul looks back in wonder/wild wimmin don't get no blues" written?

2. According to the Combahee River Collective, whose job is it to eliminate racism in the white women's movement?

3. Why does Nellie Wong claim that "you" (a writer/her) will not stop working and writing?

4. What is a "gorra"?

5. What is the brown thigh bone carved with in "Give Me Back"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Barbara Smith claim about many lesbians being separatists?

2. According to Gloria Anzaldua, what were the problems associated with power in her essay "La Prieta"?

3. What did the concrete objects in the poem "Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading" represent in reality?

4. What comparison did Cheryl Clarke make between lesbians and black women?

5. How did Cheryl Clarke wrap up her essay "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance"?

6. Why did Cherrie Moraga, in the poem "The Welder," state that she was a welder and not an alchemist?

7. Why did Luisah Teish claim that men always put down herbal remedies? (From her interview with Gloria Anzaldua.)

8. Why did the Combahee River Collective state that they were socialists?

9. What did Beverly Smith claim was the problem with analyzing problems within the women's movement?

10. What did Michelle Wallace, as noted by the Combahee River Colective, state about the struggle to change the Black woman's condition?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the authors state the importance of writing in the movement. What does the author state as the importance of writing? What does writing do for these authors? What purpose does writing serve in the women's movement?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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