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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the introduction of "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You: Racism in the Women's Movement," women of color are veterans of____________.
(a) Class and color war.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Diminished self-worth.
(d) Supremacist ideals.

2. What taught Cherrie Moraga that "we are not human beings"?
(a) Her oppression for being female.
(b) Her failure in school.
(c) Her lesbianism.
(d) Her Chicana heritage.

3. What book did Mary Daly send to Audre Lorde?
(a) "Gyn/Ecology."
(b) "The Church and the Second Sex."
(c) "Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation."
(d) "Quintessence... Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto."

4. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with Latin culture?
(a) Latin American cultures.
(b) Island cultures.
(c) Spanish cultures.
(d) European Latin cultures.

5. From the poem "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You," what do "white sisters" love to own?
(a) The promise that they are better than others.
(b) Pictures of "us."
(c) Authority.
(d) Modern slaves.

6. According to the author of "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman," what do "we" do when we put "acts of God" on an equal playing field with man?
(a) "Laugh in the face of humanity."
(b) "Spit on religious tradition."
(c) "Choose to ignore honesty."
(d) "Shrug off personal responsibility."

7. What does "braceros" mean?
(a) White-skins.
(b) Wet-backs.
(c) Enslaved.
(d) Oppressed.

8. "We are women from all kinds of ____________________ streets." This statement is taken from Moraga's "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism."
(a) Childhood.
(b) Violent.
(c) Determined.
(d) Mixed.

9. According to Doris Davenport, what is wrong with the word "racism"?
(a) Too general and simplistic.
(b) Too much incorrect history.
(c) Too specific.
(d) Too accepted.

10. Where did the author of "La Guera's" mother work while lying about her age?
(a) A factory.
(b) A racetrack.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) A sandwich shop.

11. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?
(a) White.
(b) Rich.
(c) Famous.
(d) Black.

12. "We challenge symptoms of the disease while neglecting the _________________," as related in "The Pathology of Racism" by Davenport.
(a) Past.
(b) Future.
(c) Symptoms.
(d) Causes.

13. What was the name of the anthology that the author of "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman" taught for a segment of Ethnic American Literature?
(a) "Topography of War."
(b) "Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings."
(c) "Voices Wandered: An Anthology of Poetry Art by Asian American Youth."
(d) "Aiiieeeee!"

14. What does Audre Lorde consider wasted energy, as related in"An Open Letter To Mary Daly"?
(a) Speaking to white women about racism.
(b) Trying to be a feminist.
(c) Trying to change racism.
(d) Speaking to feminists about racism.

15. What "problem" is addressed in the first section of the book?
(a) Writing problem.
(b) Color problem.
(c) Gender problem.
(d) Success problem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?

2. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?

3. From where did the quote at the beginning of "on not bein" come from?

4. "Women who must sell _________________ for pennies a day" is a quote from "Wonder Woman."

5. What does the narrator croon in "I Am What I Am"?

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