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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chrystos, what is no longer considered a tool that can eliminate racism?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Culturalism.
(d) Education.

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. Of what race is Gloria?
(a) Indian.
(b) Chicana.
(c) African American.
(d) Spanish.

4. Who wrote "For the Color of My Mother"?
(a) Ekaterina Sedia.
(b) Cherrie Moraga.
(c) Rita M. Gross.
(d) Erica Jong.

5. According to an essay by Rosario Morales in April 1980, by what does "this society" divides us?
(a) Color.
(b) Culture.
(c) Gender.
(d) Sexuality.

6. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper.
(d) Arthur Miller.

7. Why does Chrystos claim that white women are so rarely loyal?
(a) They think they are above everyone else.
(b) No one has shown them loyalty in return.
(c) They do not know how to be.
(d) They do not have to be.

8. What happened to the narrator in the poem "For the Color of My Mother" when she was two?
(a) She fell off of a roof.
(b) She split her lip open.
(c) She was attacked by a dog.
(d) She broke her leg.

9. Where does the narrator of "Wonder Woman" reflect about other women doing the same things as she does?
(a) Mekong.
(b) Beipan.
(c) Yangtze.
(d) Ning.

10. According to "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House," what must "divide and conquer" become in the world?
(a) Educate and categorize.
(b) Define and empower.
(c) Stand and fight.
(d) Love and accept.

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

12. Why was the author of "La Guera" pulled out of school at the ages of five, seven, nine, and eleven?
(a) To take care of her ailing mother.
(b) To work in a silk factory.
(c) To work in the fields.
(d) To work in a factory.

13. According to Rosario Morales, who is capable of being racist?
(a) Only those whom carry superiority complexes.
(b) Only whites.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Only women.

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

15. According to a reference to another author in "La Guera," where must one look to find the dream?
(a) To the past.
(b) The nightmare.
(c) The inner self.
(d) The ego.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does "la guera" mean?

3. What does Gabrielle Daniels claim is the only thing for which Millicent would rise?

4. How old was the narrator's mother when she was the main support of her family? ("La Guera")

5. What does the narrator say she is in "I Am What I Am"?

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