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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the footnotes for Jo Carrillo's poem "Beyond the Cliffs of Abiquiu," to what land is the poem dedicated?

2. In "Wonder Woman," what does the narrator wonder about the women whom she stares at?

3. In what month in 1979, did Gloria attend a women's retreat in California?

4. According to the introduction to the first section of the book, what will readers find voices from?

5. Of what race is Gloria?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Cherrie Moraga ask Aurora Levins Morales to write about, and what did Morales choose to write about?

2. How do the poems "When I Was Growing Up" and "on not being" differ by point-of-view?

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Doris Davenport state that racist white feminists were powerless, spineless, and invisible?

8. Who lives in the marrow of the narrator in "I Walk in the History of My People"?

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

10. What is the common theme that all of the writings from the section titled "Introduction and Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism" have in common?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you feel the the book was titled "This Bridge Called My Back"? What imagery does this title set up for the book? Is it a negative or positive understanding? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The book "This Bridge Called My Back" takes into consideration many different view points on the problems associated with the women's movement. Discuss in detail the variety of viewpoints notated in the book. What "label" does the author fit into? What does the author state as the problems in the movement? How does she detail the ways for the problems to be fixed?

Essay Topic 3

Gloria Anzaldua states "The basic problem that we have had was believing somebody else's story about us." How does this explain the problems associated within the women's movement, according to the authors? What does this statement say about all races? Is there a common solution that the authors come to in regard to eliminating the problems associated with "somebody else's story"?

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