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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of Gloria Anzaldua's biggest fears?
(a) Betraying herself.
(b) Sending out the wrong message to young women.
(c) Failing her mother.
(d) Failing as a writer.

2. How long did it take for Gloria Anzaldua to believe that white is not better than brown?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Her lifetime.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Fifty years.

3. Who wrote the poem "I speak in an illusion"?
(a) Llarona.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Erin Wolf.
(d) Judy Lucero.

4. What does the "whirring voice" in Rosario Morales' voice inside her head tell her?
(a) "You don't belong."
(b) "Stop. This is not your fight alone."
(c) "You will do great things."
(d) "The change is comming."

5. According to Barbara Noda, what sang out to her in "Lowriding Through the Women's Movement"?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Yellow.

6. What does Gloria Anzaldua say that women have to lose?
(a) Nothing, they never had any privileges.
(b) Only their sanity.
(c) Only their souls.
(d) Everything.

7. According to the Combahee River Collective, what did they claim as being recognized as being enough?
(a) Black.
(b) Lesbian.
(c) American.
(d) Human.

8. According to Barbara Smith, what does one woman state as the reason for not watching television?
(a) She wants to live in reality, and television is fiction.
(b) She is an intellectual.
(c) She is afraid of the news.
(d) Television gives such a twisted interpretation of life.

9. The introduction of "El Mundo Zurdo: The Vision" claims autonomy is NOT __________.
(a) Separatism.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Truth.
(d) Togetherness.

10. According to Cheryl Clarke, of whom are black women envious?
(a) Women with morals.
(b) Wealthy women.
(c) Women whom have made a name for themselves in the white man's world.
(d) Pampered "powder puffs."

11. What does Cherrie Moraga claim is possible in the poem "The Welder"?
(a) Fusion.
(b) Power.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Love of all.

12. "The lesbian of color is not only invisible, she does not even __________." ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")
(a) Breathe.
(b) Live.
(c) Exist.
(d) Prove her worthiness.

13. Merle Woo claims that being a Chinese man in America makes the man a victim of _______________.
(a) Mind and body.
(b) Sexism and racism.
(c) All races outside of Chinese.
(d) Chinese women.

14. To what does Rosario Morales compare "protective coloring in racist fields"?
(a) Shrubs.
(b) Cabbage.
(c) Weeds.
(d) Carrots.

15. Who does Cheryl Clarke believe to be the real enemy to lesbians?
(a) Balck men.
(b) "The Man."
(c) Heterosexual women.
(d) Each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Naomi Littlebear send to Cherrie Moraga?

2. "Certainly ____________ is not just a white phenomenon." (Gloria Anzaldua)

3. Mirtha Quintanales claims that there is no such thing as __________.

4. Why does Beverly Smith get "so frustrated"?

5. Who was Malintzin?

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