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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the author of "When I Was Growing Up"' sisters get praised?
(a) For their rigidity following mainstream thought.
(b) For their fair skin.
(c) For their success in school.
(d) For their success in following the rules of white society.

2. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?
(a) Gun fire.
(b) School children.
(c) Sirens.
(d) Owls.

3. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?
(a) American.
(b) British.
(c) Finnish.
(d) Irish.

4. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?
(a) Theorists.
(b) Parents.
(c) Childhoods.
(d) Men.

5. According to Doris Davenport, what is the cause of racism in white feminists?
(a) Miseducation.
(b) Hatred of those not white.
(c) Fear.
(d) Bizarre oppression.

6. What does the author who was quoted at the beginning of "La Guera" hope that women can make their own?
(a) Culture.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Society.
(d) Lives and experiences.

7. According to Audre Lorde, what must exist for liberation to exist?
(a) Power.
(b) Sense of self.
(c) Pride.
(d) Community.

8. Who confided in Cherrie Moraga that he felt she didn't trust him because he was a male?
(a) A gay friend.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her college mentor.
(d) Her father.

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

10. Where did the narrator of "I Am What I Am" get her English accent from?
(a) Sesame Street.
(b) National Geographic Channel.
(c) Gospel Songs.
(d) The BBC.

11. According to Judit Moschkovich, what happens when a person denies who they are, where they come from, and how they feel?
(a) They become hardened against others.
(b) They end up hating themselves.
(c) They assimilate to the societal constant.
(d) They fail to find a place for themselves.

12. Between what two things does Chrystos believe that women of color must make a choice?
(a) Culture and Americanism.
(b) Love of place and love of self.
(c) Womanhood and motherhood.
(d) Ethnicity and womanhood.

13. "All our saints have a few taints of _________," according to "Millicent Fredericks."
(a) Honesty.
(b) Sin.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Blood.

14. Who wrote "La Guera"?
(a) Marina Tsvetaeva.
(b) Mary Collier.
(c) Cherrie Moragaa.
(d) Anna Maria Lenngren.

15. According to the footnotes for Jo Carrillo's poem "Beyond the Cliffs of Abiquiu," to what land is the poem dedicated?
(a) A National Sacrifice area for energy.
(b) All Americans.
(c) Native Inhabitants.
(d) Forestry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Brown Menace/Poem to the Survival of Roaches"?

2. According to Rosario Morales, who is capable of being racist?

3. In what year did the mother of the author of "La Guera" marry the writer's father?

4. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with American culture?

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

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