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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. The conference at which Audre Lorde is talking discusses specifically the women who have a problem with the __________ of black women.
(a) Anger.
(b) Movement.
(c) Differences.
(d) Troubles.

2. In the story of La Llorona, the mother ___________ in retaliation for her husband's infidelity, as well as doing the same to his mother.
(a) Murders her sister.
(b) Drowns her own children.
(c) Kills herself.
(d) Murders her husband's father.

3. Audre Lorde asks the audience what __________ they might be enduring in silence rather than speaking against them.
(a) Laws.
(b) Injustices.
(c) Lies.
(d) Powers.

4. Black __________ are even more threatening, according to Audre Lorde, since they do not fit into a _____________.
(a) School pattern.
(b) Census.
(c) Model.
(d) Society.

5. Audre Lorde sees that there is an oppressive _____________ which causes many women to bottle up their anger.
(a) Mindset.
(b) Patriarchy.
(c) Law.
(d) Social construct.

Short Answer Questions

1. Poetry is equivalent to _________ rather than to thinking, according to Audre Lorde, and is more essential than thesis-based writing.

2. Audre Lorde does point out that sons of lesbians have the advantage of having seen their mothers' blueprints for ____________.

3. Audre Lorde had to learn ____________ at young age because her mother expected her to know what she was thinking.

4. Misconceptions can lead to the fear that another group's ____________ at securing some of their freedom will take it away from other groups.

5. Audre Lorde truly believes there is an _____________ of the white woman to try to see the struggles of the black woman.

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