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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. Audre Lorde feels that the erotic can be a tool for ____________ and an energizing force to bring about change.
(a) Empowerment.
(b) Black communities.
(c) Government.
(d) Truth.

2. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Courage.
(c) Power.
(d) Creativity.

3. Audre Lorde describes a black woman who once said that ____________ would lead to the extinction of the race as a whole.
(a) Racism.
(b) Homophobia.
(c) Facism.
(d) Lesbianism.

4. When emotional concerns are ignored, the erotic becomes a simple unpleasant _______________, which takes the passion away.
(a) Object.
(b) Act.
(c) Picture.
(d) Necessity.

5. What is NOT one of the forms of human blindness which Audre Lorde seeks to define in this section?
(a) Racism.
(b) Intellectual snobbery.
(c) Sexism.
(d) Homophobia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?

2. Women are not to ignore the power of the erotic in the service of ________, when this power can be psychically milked from them.

3. Audre Lorde sees poetry as the formation of ______________, rather than helping to express what's already there.

4. The title of the article to which Audre Lorde decides to respond is, "The Myth of ___________: A Response to Angry Black Feminists."

5. At a _________ state college, women tried to come together to support each other, only to be met with violence and shunned by their male peers.

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