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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Learning from the 60s.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term that Audre Lorde feels is being used in the black community in a derogatory way for a self-identified, independent woman?
(a) Mistress.
(b) Lorde.
(c) Mama.
(d) Lesbian.

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.
(a) New York.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Vermont.

3. Audre Lorde sees ____________ as a group that is very visible as 'different' but also invisible as second class citizens.
(a) White women.
(b) Women.
(c) Black children.
(d) Black women.

4. Much of the black community is mired in ___________ due to a false sense of security or despair, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Passivity.
(b) Bickering.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Anger.

5. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.
(a) Pornography.
(b) Art.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary Daly is the __________ female author of "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism."

2. Many women seem to dismiss Audre Lorde's anger as something which is ___________ or useless, but Lorde sees it as useful.

3. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.

4. Audre Lorde feels that the erotic can be a tool for ____________ and an energizing force to bring about change.

5. Audre Lorde believes that there is a trend in America in which radical ________ is attempted by using the same tools.

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