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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through An Interview: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When emotional concerns are ignored, the erotic becomes a simple unpleasant _______________, which takes the passion away.
(a) Necessity.
(b) Act.
(c) Object.
(d) Picture.

2. American society, according to Audre Lorde, defines human __________ in a limited way, without concern for the emotions.
(a) Thought.
(b) Power.
(c) Need.
(d) Truth.

3. Mary Daly was trying to overcome the repressive forces of the ______________, according to Audre Lorde's point of view.
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) The US government.
(d) University of Boston.

4. The erotic is dangerous as once satisfaction is experienced, it is much harder for a person _____________.
(a) To find more.
(b) To settle for less.
(c) To look for more.
(d) To forget.

5. The dismissal of the black feminist point of view leads Audre Lorde to threaten _________ between or or separation.
(a) Opposition.
(b) Anger.
(c) War.
(d) Distrust.

Short Answer Questions

1. The dismissal of other points of view, according to Audre Lorde, act as barriers to _____________ as other forms of racism do too.

2. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.

3. Black __________ are even more threatening, according to Audre Lorde, since they do not fit into a _____________.

4. Women are not to ignore the power of the erotic in the service of ________, when this power can be psychically milked from them.

5. Who does Audre Lorde feel was left out of the book which Mary Daly has written?

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