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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Moraga not completely erase from her life?
(a) Bad grades.
(b) Childhood friends.
(c) Bad lovers.
(d) Religious upbringing.

2. Cecilia and Joyce become friends and ______________.
(a) Business partners.
(b) Lab partners.
(c) Roommates.
(d) Lovers.

3. In "La Guera" what does Moraga say made her life easier for her?
(a) Her light skin.
(b) Her education.
(c) Her sense of humor.
(d) Her social status.

4. In "Fear, a Love Poem" what does the narrator say has been hard for her?
(a) To get over her last lover.
(b) To get her driver's license.
(c) To get a college degree.
(d) To accept herself for who she is.

5. Which of the following does the narrator do in "November Again?"
(a) Licks the stone.
(b) Picks up a stone.
(c) All of these.
(d) Passes the naked woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Moraga feel within her church?

2. Why is sex with her girlfriend better than sex with the male soldier?

3. Moraga's various identities have particularly affected her life with _____________.

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

5. What makes Cecilia and Deborah leave their apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the dominant theme in this set of poems?

2. In "Hearts" to what war is Moraga referring when she talks about a war no one really knew about?

3. What is one of the main themes in this section of poems?

4. What aspect of her life does Moraga discuss in the introduction?

5. What imagery of women does Moraga use in "For the Color of My Mother"?

6. Why does a woman think about her knees in "The Pilgrimage?"

7. Why does Moraga say it is important for any activist to realize that oppression is not just exterior and how is the women's movement a subtle form of racism?

8. In "Passage", to what is Moraga referring when she says something of hers has always belonged to other people?

9. What imagery with weapons does Moraga give men in "Anatomy Lesson?"

10. In "Winter of Oppression, 1982" Moraga recalls seeing horrifying images of the Holocaust but why is Moraga even more shocked to see pictures of black lynchings?

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