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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. Audre Lorde had to learn ____________ at young age because her mother expected her to know what she was thinking.
(a) Spanish.
(b) English.
(c) Nonverbal communication.
(d) Sign language.

2. In dreams that Audre Lorde has after her trip to Russia, she begins to believe that Russia became a mythic representation of that ___________ does not yet exist anywhere she has been.
(a) Democracy.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Truth.

3. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.
(a) Masculinity.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Power.
(d) Life.

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

5. What imagery does Audre Lorde question in Mary Daly's book as she perceives it to be filled with white examples?
(a) Love.
(b) Goddess.
(c) Erotic.
(d) Relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. During Malcolm X weekend, Audre Lorde speaks at __________ to see if there are lessons to be used from the 1960s.

2. Bonding between ___________ is seen as threatening to those in patriarchal society, according to Audre Lorde.

3. 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?

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

5. ___________ is the fury of those who do not share our goals and its object is death and destruction.

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