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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 being a "Yellow Feminist" mean? (Merle Woo)
(a) Being a "tree hugger."
(b) Supporting peace worldwide.
(c) Being a community activist and humanist.
(d) Loving all people.

2. "There is no __________________ in poverty." (Gloria Anzaldua)
(a) Honor.
(b) Love.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Trust.

3. "Even though we go hungry we are not impoverished of ________________." ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")
(a) Experiences.
(b) Life.
(c) Nurishment.
(d) Dreams.

4. In her letter to Barbara Smith, Mirtha Quintanales tells Smith about ___________.
(a) Dallas.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Austin.
(d) New York.

5. "Your skin must be sensitive for the lightest _____________ and thick enough to ward off the ___________________." ("Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers")
(a) Compliment and disgrace.
(b) Touch and demons.
(c) Kiss and sneers.
(d) Breath and strikes.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Rosario Morales compare "protective coloring in racist fields"?

2. What does Chrystos use to "mark out the space I am"?

3. What is the brown thigh bone carved with in "Give Me Back"?

4. When was the first piece of Hattie Gossett's book "my soul looks back in wonder/wild wimmin don't get no blues" written?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Combahee River Collective state that they were socialists?

2. Why did Cheryl Clarke state that being a lesbian is a dangerous act of rebellion?

3. Mirtha Quintanales stated that all humans had/have needs that must be met. What, according to Quintanales, are the circumstances under which these needs are to be met?

4. Why did Gloria Anzaldua claim that lesbians of color were invisible?

5. Why did Barbara Smith claim that "virtually no Black person in this country ...is surprised about oppression"?

6. What did Gloria Anzaldua's mother want in return for birthing Gloria?

7. Why did the Combahee River Collective believe that they needed a collection of Black feminist writing?

8. According to Cherrie Moraga's introduction to the section "Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer," what did first generation third world writers defy?

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

10. 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"?

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