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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. What kind of crisis does Hattie Gossett claim there is at the time of her book's release?
2. Who does Cheryl Clarke believe to be the real enemy to lesbians?
3. What does Chrystos use to "mark out the space I am"?
4. According to Barbara Smith, what does one woman state as the reason for not watching television?
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")
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Beverly Smith claim was the problem with analyzing problems within the women's movement?
2. What did Michelle Wallace, as noted by the Combahee River Colective, state about the struggle to change the Black woman's condition?
3. What comparison did Cheryl Clarke make between lesbians and black women?
4. What "click" did Beverly Smith claim still existed in the women's movement?
5. Why did Cheryl Clarke state that being a lesbian is a dangerous act of rebellion?
6. Why did Luisah Teish claim that men always put down herbal remedies? (From her interview with Gloria Anzaldua.)
7. Why did the Combahee River Collective believe that they needed a collection of Black feminist writing?
8. What did Gloria Anzaldua's mother want in return for birthing Gloria?
9. What drove Barbara Smith crazy regarding the arrogance of some white women? (Across the Kitchen Table")
10. Why did the poem "I sing to myself", as used by Norma Alarcon in "Chicana's Feminist Literature: A Re-Vision Through Malintzin," represent a key example for her problem with the parent-child relationship?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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"?
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
Using the writings of Cherrie Moraga, describe and define the different types of lesbianism. Be sure to address their similarities and their differences.
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