Anzaldua's "Borderlands" Chapter 3

Question 1

Sample Question: Who is the author of the book we are discussing today?

Accepted Answer

Gloria Anzaldua

Question 2

According to Anzaldua, La Llorona's wailing is

Accepted Answer

a sign of resistance

Question 3

Guadalupe appeared on December 9, 1531 to whom?

Accepted Answer

Juan Diego

Question 4

Who mediates between the Spanish and Indian cultures and the Chicanos and the white world?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 5

True or False: According to Anzaldua, the Aztec nation fell because of Malinali (La Chingada).

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Who does Anzaldua say is the mother of Chicanas?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 7

What is "the capacity to see in surface phenomena the meaning of deeper realities?"

Accepted Answer

La Facultad

Question 8

True or False: Matrilineal descent characterized the Toltecs and perhaps early Aztec society?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Institutionalized religion fears the supra-human; what does Anzaldua mean by this?

Accepted Answer

the god in ourselves

Question 10

Coatlique stands for what?

Accepted Answer

serpent skirt

Question 11

According to Anzaldua, the Catholic and Protestant Religions encourage what?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 12

La Virgen/Puta Dichotomy is..?

Accepted Answer

A Narrow Binary

Question 13

Vagina Dentata in this chapter refers to...

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 14

La Virgen De Guadalupe's Indian name is what?

Accepted Answer

Coatlalopeuh

Question 15

The religious purpose of the "wars of flowers" was to?

Accepted Answer

"Feed" the gods

Questions 15