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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.
(a) Settlers.
(b) Co-wives.
(c) Goddesses.
(d) Medicine women.

2. Even if Audre Lorde was punished or misunderstood for _________, she notes that she regrets only those times when she was silent.
(a) Speaking.
(b) Writing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Crying.

3. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.
(a) Female.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Male.

4. Audre Lorde accuses the author of the article of attacking the black feminists under the guise of trying to __________ with them.
(a) Open a dialogue.
(b) Make peace.
(c) Work.
(d) Understand their concerns.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Efik Ebibio is married to a man, but actively speaks of a ___________ relationship with another married woman.

2. Erotic provides the ___________ of sharing an experience with another, according to Audre Lorde.

3. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.

4. Audre Lorde believes the article was simply a show of the proof that the black male community sees black women as a ________ rather than allies.

5. Audre Lorde asks the audience what __________ they might be enduring in silence rather than speaking against them.

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