Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza Quizzes

Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza Quiz 1

1 What is the herida abierta?
Gloria's exile from her home

The U.S.-Mexico border

Patriarchal control of culture

The division of Coatlicue
2 Which of the following most specifically refers to people of mixed Indigenous and Spanish heritage?
mestiza/o

tejana/o

Hispanic

Chicana/o
3 What does maquiladoras mean?
Factories owned by US corporations but based in Mexico

Smugglers who bring people immigrating illegally across the U.S.-Mexico border

A derogatory term for Mexican-Americans

A slang language made up of a mix of English and Spanish, developed by the zoot-suit subculture
4 What does raza refer to?
Any race of people

The race to the top

The raising of corn

The Mexican people
5 Why does Anzaldúa compare the border to the meeting of ocean and land in chapter 1?
Because the border is impossible to get rid of

Because the border can be similarly violent

Because the border is beautiful

Because the border is a natural inevitability
6 Why does Anzaldúa refer to Mexicans as "twice Indigenous" to the Southwest?
Because Mexicans earned the land a second time by working it as immigrants

Because the U.S. has been twice as brutal as any other empire

Because the Indigenous ancestors of Mexicans arrived there first tens of thousands of years ago, and much later, it became part of the Mexican state

Because the U.S. stole the land from Mexico twice
7 How does Gloria react to the story of the woman who spent half the year with a vagina and half with a penis?
Disgust

Disbelief

Admiration

Disinterest
8 Why is the borderland "vague and undetermined"?
It isn't clear what is and isn't a borderland

The border isn't strictly defined

The people there are native to no where

The border constantly moves
9 What history does Anzaldúa write in chapter 3?
The history of Mexico's conquest of its Indigenous people

The history of patriarchy in western culture

The history of the U.S.'s conquest of Mexico

The history of patriarchy in Indigenous and Mexican culture
10 Which of the following best describes the kind of knowledge Anzaldúa prioritizes in "La Facultad"?
Knowledge rooted in myth and imagination

Knowledge rooted in history

Knowledge rooted in logic and rationality

Knowledge rooted in empirical observation
11 "Entering Into the Serpent" is an example of what kind of approach to history?
Propagandistic

Rigorously rooted in evidence

Fictional

Informed by myth
12 Which of the following did NOT pressure Gloria to speak English?
Her mother

Elementary school

College

Her friends
13 Why does Anzaldúa describe language policing as "Linguistic Terrorism"?
It can only be carried out by the state

It's only alleged as a form of violence

It can only be carried out by individuals

It's a form of violence
14 What are the "movies" Anzaldúa refers to in Chapter 6?
Her favorite Chicano films

Hallucinations which she draws inspiration form

Waking dreams in which she envisions the events of her stories

Short films she makes to illustrate her ideas
15 What does Anzaldúa believe the relationship is between language and personal identity?
Language hides who we are

Language can be part of who we are

Language is who we are

Language doesn't impact who we are
16 What is the last chapter of Borderlands?
The Path of the Red and Black Ink

Towards a New Consciousness

Entering Into the Serpent

The Coatlicue State
17 What is the new mestiza consciousness?
A way of seeing the world only mestizas can access

A way of seeing the world rooted in the mestiza experience

The world becoming aware of mestizas

An awareness that mestizos are the superior race
18 Who was Jose Vascocelos?
A Spanish philosopher whose ideas Anzaldúa rejects

A Mexican philosopher writing at the same time as Anzaldúa

A foundational Mexican philosopher whose ideas Anzaldúa builds on

A Mexican poet who was an inspiration for Anzaldúa
19 What is the biggest difference between Vascocelos's idea of mestizaje and Anzaldúa's idea of the new mestiza consciousness?
Anzaldúa does not think that there was anything superior about mestizas

Anzaldúa does not view race as a biological reality

Anzaldúa does not see mestizas as in opposition to white power

Anzaldúa does not think people with Spanish ancestry could be mestiza
20 Which of the following best expresses the role of the past in Borderlands?
History is a traumatic wound which we can work to forget

The past is always present, and histories of violence can only be displaced through revolutionary change

It isn't worth trying to change the present because history determines what will happen

The past disappears as soon as it happens, we must live in the present
21 How is the second section of Borderlands different from the first?
It's all in Spanish

It's apolitical

It's all poetry

It's all in English
22 Who is the narrator in the second section of Borderlands?
The narrator is ambiguous and varies

Gloria and other members of her community

Anzaldúa

Gloria as a young girl
23 How many sections is “Un Agitado Viento / Ehécatl, The Wind” made up of?
Four

Seven

Five

Six
24 What is the topic of "Cervicide"?
The speaker remembers her grandmother visiting when she was a child

The speaker remembers plucking off cactus thorns to cook with

A Chicana farmer has to sell off hunting rights

A young girl has to kill her family's fawn
25 Which of the following themes from "Crossing Borders" is least present in “Un Agitado Viento / Ehécatl, The Wind”
The borderlands

The problems of embodiment

Political coalition building

The connections between animals and humans

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