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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. 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) Diminished self-worth.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Supremacist ideals.
(d) Class and color war.

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

3. "All our saints have a few taints of _________," according to "Millicent Fredericks."
(a) Humanity.
(b) Sin.
(c) Blood.
(d) Honesty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author of "When I Was Growing Up" long to be?

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

3. What word have feminists "had it with"?

4. What nationality does the narrator of "I Am What I Am" find funny in the way that they speak?

5. Who confided in Cherrie Moraga that he felt she didn't trust him because he was a male?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Aurora Levins Morales' friend Ceci say must change for things to be different so the daughters of Latinos could be free?

4. What did Cherrie Moraga state as the driving force behind compiling the book "This Bridge Called My Back"?

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

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

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

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

9. What did Doris Davenport describe as Black "wimmin's "aversion to white "wimmin"?

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

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