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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Stand and fight.
(c) Love and accept.
(d) Define and empower.

3. 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.

4. What does "la guera" mean?
(a) Dark-skinned.
(b) Fair-skinned.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the author who was quoted at the beginning of "La Guera" hope that women can make their own?

3. Where was the author of "La Guera"'s mother born?

4. What does the narrator in "Wonder Woman" wonder about the professor's wife?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Anita Valerio, how is the Okan described?

2. What does Rosario Morales say that she is in "I am What I Am"?

3. According to Audre Lorde, what was the diversion task of black and third world women?

4. What were Cherrie Moraga's and Gloria Anzaldua's hopes for the book?

5. What did Cherrie Moraga ask Aurora Levins Morales to write about, and what did Morales choose to write about?

6. Why did Audre Lorde decide never to talk to white women about racism?

7. What does the first section of the book speak about?

8. What is the common theme that all of the writings from the section titled "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism" have in common?

9. Who lives in the marrow of the narrator in "I Walk in the History of My People"?

10. What are three of the ironic questionings that Lim makes regarding women in her poem "Wonder Woman"?

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