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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. To what city does Audre Lorde compare the atmosphere and the weather of Moscow?
(a) Berlin.
(b) New York.
(c) London.
(d) Chicago.

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

3. In dreams that Audre Lorde has after her trip to Russia, she begins to believe that Russia became a mythic representation of that ___________ does not yet exist anywhere she has been.
(a) Democracy.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Truth.

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.
(a) Terror.
(b) Threat.
(c) Annoyance.
(d) Distraction.

5. One of the reasons which Audre Lorde believes leads to silence in one's life is ______________.
(a) Femininity.
(b) Poor writing.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Poor community support.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde begins to believe that important issues are better to be ___________ than to go unexpressed in the world.

2. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.

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

4. Who is the author of the essay to which Audre Lorde decides to respond, as it was published in the same journal earlier in the year?

5. Poetry is the essence of _______________, according to the feelings of Audre Lorde.

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