View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A movement that has a _________________ is far more likely to succeed than a movement that is purely theoretical.
(a) Good organizational structure.
(b) High profile leader.
(c) Significant amount of money.
(d) Spiritual quality.

2. Assuming that works of art that are not built upon Western foundations and structures have no value is intrinsically ethnocentric and ______________.
(a) Negative.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Racist.
(d) Accurate.

3. According to Moraga, America is not interested in producing ________________.
(a) Revolutionaries.
(b) Saints.
(c) Militants.
(d) Oil.

4. Who was the writer who wrote that the United States-Mexican border was a "1,950-mile-long open wound"?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Gloria Steinem.
(c) Gloria Allred.
(d) Gloria Anzaldua.

5. According to Moraga, most white people in America do not know ____________________.
(a) The time of day.
(b) Anything about Hispanics.
(c) The nationality of their ancestors.
(d) How to help others.

6. Most lesbians claim that a lesbian loses the desire for __________________.
(a) Penetrative sex.
(b) Romance.
(c) Dating.
(d) Tough women.

7. Moraga found that when she first started having sex with women she was assuming the role of ______________.
(a) Chingon.
(b) Protector.
(c) Chingada.
(d) Mentor.

8. Sexism is far more complex than _____________.
(a) Integration.
(b) Politics.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Racism.

9. In Chicana culture, men are considered to be __________________.
(a) Better than women.
(b) Funnier than women.
(c) More generous than women.
(d) Better dressers than women.

10. The right to passion drives which one of the following?
(a) Economic movements.
(b) Women's movements.
(c) Cultural movements.
(d) All of these.

11. When had Moraga first heard the story of La Mujer Llorena?
(a) When she was a little girl.
(b) When she was 27.
(c) When she graduated high school.
(d) When she was in college.

12. According to Moraga, who does intellectualism serve?
(a) Students.
(b) Universities.
(c) The ruling class.
(d) Ministers.

13. Moraga claims that excessive jargon leads to ________________ of the ideas upon which it touches.
(a) Validation.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Evasion.
(d) Marginalization.

14. What is the theme in this section of the book?
(a) The vulnerability of children.
(b) The frailty of the male ego.
(c) The role of politics in education.
(d) The interconnectedness of forms discrimination.

15. In "Canto Florido" to what does Moraga liken words that are thought but never spoken?
(a) Flowers which rest on the tip of the mouth.
(b) Florida sunsets.
(c) Flowers which bloom in the spring.
(d) Songs of Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a misogynist?

2. According to Moraga, the problems with primary education are mainly related to ____________________.

3. A Chicana mother's adoration of her sons is an unconscious attempt to turn them into _______________________.

4. According to Moraga, the university system in America is interested only in producing ____________________.

5. One of the myths of the lesbian movement is that lesbian sexuality is __________________________.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 471 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample