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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. White women have the option of identifying themselves with the white patriarchy in order to gain power by _____________.
(a) Association.
(b) Changing tact.
(c) Default.
(d) Giving in.

2. Who does Audre Lorde accuse of focusing on the struggles of women as women, rather than as particular kinds of women?
(a) Heterosexual women.
(b) Lesbian women.
(c) White women.
(d) Black women.

3. Audre Lorde warns those in the audience that they should stay away from __________ the past and instead try to learn from it.
(a) Ignoring.
(b) Staying in.
(c) Criticizing.
(d) Romanticizing.

4. Audre Lorde believes that there is a trend in America in which radical ________ is attempted by using the same tools.
(a) Writing.
(b) Work.
(c) Change.
(d) Truth.

5. Erotic provides the ___________ of sharing an experience with another, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Connection.
(b) Belief.
(c) Power.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde sees that black men encourage black women to identify themselves in terms of their ___________ to their black male partners.

2. Who does Audre Lorde feel was left out of the book which Mary Daly has written?

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

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

5. Where was Audre Lorde when she learned that Martin Luther King had been killed?

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