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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 70 - 80.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What imagery does Moraga use in "Heading East" to compare how male-dominated society tries to marginalize women?
(a) A car with a hole in one of its pipes.
(b) A pressure cooker.
(c) A factory line.
(d) A retail store.

2. What had Moraga and her mother suspected about her father?
(a) He was unfaithful.
(b) He was a closet alcoholic.
(c) He was a homosexual.
(d) He smoked pot.

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

4. When they are at a friend's house, Cecilia feels like __________________________.
(a) She wants to take cooking lessons.
(b) She needs a vacation.
(c) Her heart is closing up toward Deborah.
(d) She would like to stay forever.

5. With whom does Moraga identify in "No Born-Again Children?"
(a) Her lover's brother.
(b) A cartoon character.
(c) A movie star.
(d) Her best friend from high school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Cecilia's lover?

2. According to Moraga, what can docile obedience do to a person?

3. What had happened to Moraga's lover's brother?

4. Why does Moraga say the women's movement has some latent racism in it?

5. Moraga says that it is only ___________ who ever get any attention.

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