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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) The first daffodil opening.
(b) A wind to fill your sails.
(c) A wave from the ocean.
(d) The first bloom from a cactus.

2. Why can't Gloria Anzaldua sleep at night?
(a) Her father died.
(b) She has lost her lover.
(c) Her mother has disowned her.
(d) The mugger said he would come and get her.

3. In "La Prieta," what are "old selves" compared to?
(a) A ratty t-shirt.
(b) A favorite pair of jeans.
(c) A first love.
(d) An old shoe.

4. The introduction of "El Mundo Zurdo: The Vision" claims autonomy is NOT __________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Togetherness.
(c) Separatism.
(d) Hatred.

5. Cheryl Clarke identifies a lesbian as ________________.
(a) A woman who denies her sexuality.
(b) A woman who says she is.
(c) A woman who dislikes men.
(d) A woman who proves she is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What humorous answer does Barbara Smith give to the following question that her sister poses to her: "Is there any oppression that women experience that is that total, in other words literally affects their physical well-being on a day to day basis?

2. When did the Combahee River Collective first begin to meet?

3. What does NWSA stand for?

4. According to the Combahee River Collective, what did they claim as being recognized as being enough?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Nellie Wong state that she will not stop working and writing? ("In Search of the Self As Hero: Confetti of Voices on New Year's Night")

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

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

8. What did the concrete objects in the poem "Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading" represent in reality?

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

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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