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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 believes that enabling her children to be ___________ with themselves is one of the best gifts she has given them.
(a) Content.
(b) Honest.
(c) Sad.
(d) Happy.

2. __________ is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Oppression.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Segregation.

3. At a recent conference, Audre Lorde was told that ________ over the age of ten were not allowed to come.
(a) Black women.
(b) Girls.
(c) Boys.
(d) Black men.

4. Some white women, according to Audre Lorde, restrict themselves to the __________ community and this angers Lorde.
(a) Academic.
(b) Music.
(c) Business.
(d) Art.

5. What is the name of Audre Lorde's son who is featured within this section of the book?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Michael.
(d) Terrence.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ is a tool which can be used constructively during a moment of frustration, according to Audre Lorde.

2. Audre Lorde feels that her son will have to forge his own ___________ without a clear model or someone to rebel against.

3. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.

4. Audre Lorde sees that even the very idea that women are coming together against __________ is dangerous.

5. Audre Lorde sees that there is an oppressive _____________ which causes many women to bottle up their anger.

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