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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 truly believes there is an _____________ of the white woman to try to see the struggles of the black woman.
(a) Unsung need.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Unwillingness.
(d) Honesty.

2. Audre Lorde cites a bias against _________ as one of the examples of how classism can impact society.
(a) Poetry.
(b) Lesbians.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Minimum wage.

3. Audre Lorde admits that she can only deal with her ___________ and that she will try not to make generalizations.
(a) Logic.
(b) Own experience.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Truths.

4. Audre Lorde decided to publish the open letter to Mary Daly after sending it to her and receiving ______________.
(a) An angry reply.
(b) The letter back, unread.
(c) The book rewritten.
(d) No reply.

5. What is NOT one of the ills of life which poetry serves to cure, acting as an antidote to these ills, according to Audre Lorde?
(a) Environmental destruction.
(b) Linear power.
(c) Institutional dehumanization.
(d) Unhealthy focus on profit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde makes a trip to be an observer at the Union of Soviet Writers' African-Asian Writers Conference in __________.

2. Who in Audre Lorde's life used to make up words when they could not come up with the word they needed?

3. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic is summed up by her own phrase, "It _____________."

4. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.

5. What imagery does Audre Lorde question in Mary Daly's book as she perceives it to be filled with white examples?

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