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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is quoted at the beginning of the poem "on not bein"?
(a) Sandy Boucher.
(b) Ntozake Shange.
(c) Marilyn French.
(d) Marleen Barr.

2. Rosario Morales claims that color and class do not define what two things?
(a) People or politics.
(b) People and culture.
(c) Success and failure.
(d) Quality of education and money.

3. What did the subject in the poem, "on not bein," not ever want to be?
(a) Black.
(b) Female.
(c) Spanish.
(d) White.

4. Who wrote "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?
(a) Mitsuye Yamada.
(b) Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
(c) Gish Jen.
(d) Wendy Law-Yone.

5. What state did the narrator move back to in her mind in "Dreams of Violence"?
(a) Flordia.
(b) Virginia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

6. What word did Gloria and Merlin wish to define for themselves, based upon their choice to leave a national feminist writers movement?
(a) Power.
(b) Feminist.
(c) American.
(d) Entity.

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

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

9. What must one do to become visible, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?
(a) Be honored by our culture.
(b) Succeed in the face of society.
(c) Refuse to separate the actor from thier actions.
(d) Trust in ourselves.

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

11. What culture does Judit Moschkovich align with American culture?
(a) Afro-American.
(b) Anglo.
(c) Native American.
(d) Chicana.

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

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

14. According to Cherrie Moraga, what does lesbianism equal in "this country"?
(a) Misunderstanding.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Second-class citizenship.

15. According to the introduction, for whom do Third World women put themselves on the line for?
(a) Their homelands.
(b) Their selves.
(c) Their darker sisters.
(d) Their parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What taught Cherrie Moraga that "we are not human beings"?

2. Who wrote "Dreams of Violence"?

3. According to Chrystos, what is no longer considered a tool that can eliminate racism?

4. According to Doris Davenport, what is the cause of racism in white feminists?

5. In the poem "on not bein," what is the subject's chest compared to?

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