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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 defines the erotic as both spiritual and ___________ and as a source of power in the world.
(a) Female.
(b) Male.
(c) Heterosexual.
(d) Homosexual.

2. Efik Ebibio is married to a man, but actively speaks of a ___________ relationship with another married woman.
(a) Lesbian.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Friend.
(d) Professional.

3. Audre Lorde learned from the 1960s that she needed to define ____________ for herself and not let others do this job.
(a) Herself.
(b) Truth.
(c) Anger.
(d) Honor.

4. Black females, according to Audre Lorde, have become a primary target for _________ whose cause is external to the black community.
(a) Sadness.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

5. Audre Lorde does point out that sons of lesbians have the advantage of having seen their mothers' blueprints for ____________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Action.
(c) Power.
(d) Survival.

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ can create an illusion of protection from those who might wish one harm, according to Audre Lorde.

2. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is able to express ____________ , which are then a direct link back to the ancient society.

3. The dismissal of the black feminist point of view leads Audre Lorde to threaten _________ between or or separation.

4. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic has the capacity to remind Lorde of the human capacity for __________ in the world.

5. One of the main problems Audre Lorde saw during the 1960s was a perceived need for __________ in the movement.

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