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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde admits that she can only deal with her ___________ and that she will try not to make generalizations.
(a) Own experience.
(b) Truths.
(c) Logic.
(d) Poetry.

2. Audre Lorde thinks it to be wrong to bottle up anger and then later unleash it on a/an _________________.
(a) Innocent party.
(b) Friend.
(c) Unwitting pet.
(d) Family member.

3. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.
(a) Male.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Female.

4. Instead of telling her son to fight the bullies, Audre Lorde tells her son about how she __________________.
(a) Talks to a group.
(b) Would beat up other girls.
(c) Was afraid of bullies too.
(d) Loves him no matter what he does.

5. At the same time, sons of lesbian mothers have to formulate their own ideas about what it means to be __________.
(a) A son.
(b) Male.
(c) A female.
(d) A provider.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes that the revelation that she too has __________________ is something which will help her son cope.

2. The conference at which Audre Lorde is talking discusses specifically the women who have a problem with the __________ of black women.

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

4. Audre Lorde believes that many groups have avoided discussing anger between ___________ in favor of other concerns.

5. Audre Lorde believe the forms of human blindness can be remedied through the realization that ___________ can be enriching.

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