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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 82 - 108.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Moraga see the oppressor?
(a) In social services.
(b) In politics.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) In church.

2. According to Moraga, ______________ means more than one's own well-being or peace.
(a) Poetry.
(b) The truth.
(c) The future.
(d) Education.

3. What does Cecilia notice about Joyce when she sees her again after having separated?
(a) She has red hair.
(b) She is blind.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is limping.

4. Which of the following does Moraga write about in "For the Color of My Mother?"
(a) Her mother's desperate prayers.
(b) All of these.
(c) The moans of a difficult childbirth.
(d) Having her lip split open as a child.

5. What is wrong with the narrator in "You Upset the Whole System of This Place?"
(a) She has cramps.
(b) She has a sinus infection.
(c) She has tuberculosis.
(d) She is sick with a cough.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Moraga refuse to give up her old typewriter?

2. What does a crazy woman do in the restaurant where Moraga is working?

3. What is the dominant theme in the poems in this section?

4. What does the narrator see a woman doing in "November Again?"

5. Various codes of sexual morality, especially the institution of marriage, are founded on the masculine desire to __________________.

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