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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 drives Barbara Smith crazy, according to the "Sister-to-Sister Dialogue"?

2. Gloria Anzaldua claims ___________split her.

3. What metaphor does Gloria Anzaldua use to compare writing to?

4. In "La Prieta," what are "old selves" compared to?

5. According to Gloria Anzaldua, who said, "Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Gloria Anzaldua state is the reason that one resists the act of writing?

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many different references to "Left-Handed" and "Right-Handed" worlds. What is meant by both of these titles? How do different authors describe the meaning of "left-handed" and "right-handed" worlds? Why are these terms used as designations at all? What is the relevance?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Some of the writings showed very personal reflections on the women's movement and the author's submersion in the movement. Other writings depicted a very sterile and emotionless presentation of the women's movement. Discuss the difference between the two very different stands on the problems associated with the women's movement. Which writings seemed to "better" present the problems associated with the women's movement? Explain.

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