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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 does Chrystos want to give "you"? ("Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading")
(a) A wind to fill your sails.
(b) The first bloom from a cactus.
(c) A wave from the ocean.
(d) The first daffodil opening.

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

3. As stated by the Combahee River Collective, what did "smart" equal?
(a) Sneaky.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Powerless.

4. How does a woman who chooses to be a lesbian, according to Cheryl Clarke, live?
(a) Submissively.
(b) In hiding.
(c) Dangerously.
(d) Openly.

5. According to "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers," what do "white eyes" not bother to learn?
(a) Our past.
(b) Our humanity.
(c) Our culture.
(d) Our language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened on August 6, 1941, just four days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

2. According to Cheryl Clarke, how many different kinds of lesbians are there?

3. Why does Nellie Wong claim that "you" (a writer/her) will not stop working and writing?

4. What does Chrystos pass around the circle in her poem "Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading"?

5. What did Gloria Anzaldua claim changed her forever?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Barbara Smith claim about many lesbians being separatists?

2. What happened to Gloria Anzaldua when she began to write the essay "La Prieta"?

3. How did Cherrie Moraga describe the similarities and differences between Third World women writers?

4. Why did/does Barbara Smith believe that the white power structure did a good job on keeping women from bonding across racial lines?

5. Describe the "smart-ugly" crystallization as described by the Combahee River Collective.

6. What did Beverly Smith claim was the problem with analyzing problems within the women's movement?

7. According to Gloria Anzaldua, what did she believe that white men expected of Third World women if they wanted to make it in a "right-handed world"?

8. How did Cheryl Clarke wrap up her essay "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance"?

9. Why did Hattie Gossett believe that it would be difficult to get her book out?

10. What did Michelle Wallace, as noted by the Combahee River Colective, state about the struggle to change the Black woman's condition?

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