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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. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.
(a) Negro policy.
(b) Women writers.
(c) Black lesbians.
(d) American blacks.

2. The _______ that the black men manifest toward black women would, according to Audre Lorde, be more effective as a force for greater change.
(a) Joy.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Rage.
(d) Humor.

3. Women are not to ignore the power of the erotic in the service of ________, when this power can be psychically milked from them.
(a) Men.
(b) Women.
(c) God.
(d) The government.

4. Audre Lorde challenges the people at the panel to look at their lives as she looked at her possible _______________.
(a) Surgeries.
(b) Life experiences.
(c) Poems.
(d) Cancer treatment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.

2. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.

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

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

5. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.

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