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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. Why does Rosario Morales carry a "pole 18 inches long"?
(a) To protect herself from right-winged feminists.
(b) To protect herself from 13-89 year old men.
(c) To protect herself from America.
(d) To maintain her right to be proud of her culture.

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

3. According to the introduction of "And When you Leave, Take Your Pictures with You: Racism in the Women's Movement," women of color are veterans of____________.
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Supremacist ideals.
(c) Diminished self-worth.
(d) Class and color war.

4. In "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?
(a) If they are afraid of who they are.
(b) If they share her dreams.
(c) If they notice her the way she notices them.
(d) If they wish to be someone else.

5. What does the narrator croon in "I Am What I Am"?
(a) Jorge Arraiza songs.
(b) Skitzo rap.
(c) Rafael Ithier poetry.
(d) Carlos Gardel tangoes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the narrator of "Dreams of Violence" awakened by in the writing?

3. What author did the narrator from "I Am What I Am" read "thru three or four times"?

4. What does the author want to make changes in, according to "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mitsuye Yamada say that Asian Pacific American women could make themselves more visible?

2. When did Mitsuye Yamada say that Asian Pacific American women would speak out?

3. What did Aurora Levins Morales decide was the issue that she had with Piri Thomas' book "Down These Mean Streets"?

4. What happened to Naomi Littlebear when she ran home after being attacked as a little girl?

5. In the introduction, Moraga defined the different sections of the book. What are they?

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

7. Why did the woman in Lee's "on not bein" marry the first man who proposed?

8. In the poem "When I was Growing Up," what was life like for Nellie Wong?

9. What is Barbara Smith's "inherent definition of feminism"? (According to the introduction of "An d When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You")

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

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