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

2. According to Moraga, which is the only ethnic background that the American school system seems interested in informing students about?
(a) Asian.
(b) Western European.
(c) Hispanic.
(d) Italian.

3. Moraga reasons that the woman and the lesbian who killed the woman's children were reacting against ___________.
(a) Marriage.
(b) Motherhood.
(c) Men.
(d) Society.

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

5. Chicana mothers usually prefer ___________________.
(a) To clean their own homes.
(b) To host Sunday dinner.
(c) Their sons to be priests.
(d) Their sons over their daughters.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what other institution can the women's movement learn?

2. What is the literary device used by Anzaldua when she wrote that the United States-Mexican border was a "1,950 mile-long open wound"?

3. Regarding intellectualism, Moraga talks not only about the content of various theories but also the methods and _____________ used.

4. The feminist movement is dominated by _____________________.

5. Why could the feminist movement be considered racist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Moraga say was one of the defining characteristics of the Civil Rights movement and why does that factor improve chances for success for any movement?

2. Why does Moraga believe it is vital for artists to continue to create art that reflects their own cultural identities?

3. What did Moraga learn about sexism from being raised a Chicana woman?

4. What are Moraga's thoughts regarding post-modernism's use of jargon leading to a marginalization of topics?

5. Why are sexually liberated women, and to a greater degree, lesbians, denigrated in Chicano society?

6. What does Moraga think might be the deep, real reason that women kill their children?

7. Who is La Mujer Llorena and what is her story?

8. Who is Malinche and why to Mexicans despise her?

9. According to Moraga, what is the university system only interested in producing?

10. What example of writer Gloria Anzaldua's work does Moraga use to point out that academia gets lost in obsessions with complex theory?

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