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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. This section encompasses a talk which Audre Lorde gave during a "Lesbian and _________ Panel" in 1977.
(a) Ethics.
(b) Literature.
(c) Movement.
(d) Poetry.

3. Misconceptions can lead to the fear that another group's ____________ at securing some of their freedom will take it away from other groups.
(a) Commitment.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Success.
(d) Weakness.

4. To what city does Audre Lorde compare the atmosphere and the weather of Moscow?
(a) Berlin.
(b) New York.
(c) London.
(d) Chicago.

5. Expression through poetry leads to new ideas that are more easily formed on the ___________ level of poems.
(a) Emotional.
(b) Rational.
(c) Logical.
(d) Ethical.

6. Audre Lorde points out the flaw in thinking that another group freedom of ___________ is to jeopardize one's own freedoms.
(a) Truth.
(b) Demonstration.
(c) Honor.
(d) Expression.

7. Audre Lorde wants to point out that one ________________ does not justify another and the other author's method of expressing this was misguided.
(a) Lie.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Method of persecution.
(d) Shout in anger.

8. __________ allows injustices to go unheard and fears to remain powerful, according to Audre Lorde in her talk.
(a) Silence.
(b) Society.
(c) Book reading.
(d) Mankind.

9. Audre Lorde accuses Mary Daly of completely dismissing the influence of ____________ in history.
(a) Poets.
(b) White men.
(c) Black men.
(d) Black women.

10. Audre Lorde discusses the topic of ___________ anger against and toward black females in this section.
(a) White male.
(b) Black male.
(c) White female.
(d) Government.

11. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.
(a) Negro policy.
(b) American blacks.
(c) Black lesbians.
(d) Women writers.

12. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.
(a) Conflict.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Separation.
(d) Boredom.

13. Audre Lorde asks the audience what __________ they might be enduring in silence rather than speaking against them.
(a) Powers.
(b) Lies.
(c) Laws.
(d) Injustices.

14. What is NOT one of the ills of life which poetry serves to cure, acting as an antidote to these ills, according to Audre Lorde?
(a) Unhealthy focus on profit.
(b) Linear power.
(c) Institutional dehumanization.
(d) Environmental destruction.

15. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of using her _________ to legitimize her writing in the eyes of black women readers.
(a) Picture.
(b) Review.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Words.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the person which send the copy of Mary Daly's book to Audre Lorde in order to review it?

2. At a _________ state college, women tried to come together to support each other, only to be met with violence and shunned by their male peers.

3. Audre Lorde sees that black men encourage black women to identify themselves in terms of their ___________ to their black male partners.

4. What is NOT one of the forms of human blindness which Audre Lorde seeks to define in this section?

5. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.

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