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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 begins to believe that important issues are better to be ___________ than to go unexpressed in the world.
(a) Discussed.
(b) Shouted.
(c) Honored.
(d) Proven.

2. Audre Lorde makes a trip to be an observer at the Union of Soviet Writers' African-Asian Writers Conference in __________.
(a) 1956.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1977.

3. The Great American Double Think is a symptom of the __________ thought processes, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Tired male.
(b) Black male centric.
(c) Lazy black male.
(d) White male centric.

4. The title of the article to which Audre Lorde decides to respond is, "The Myth of ___________: A Response to Angry Black Feminists."
(a) Black Macho.
(b) Black Men.
(c) Black Disconnect.
(d) Black Anger.

5. Audre Lorde believes there are no new _________ still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as humans.
(a) Books.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hopes and __________ are transformed into language through poetry, which then can lead to action.

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

3. The _______ that the black men manifest toward black women would, according to Audre Lorde, be more effective as a force for greater change.

4. One of the reasons which Audre Lorde believes leads to silence in one's life is ______________.

5. Audre Lorde sees the Soviet Union as placing its___________ at the core of its programs, at least officially.

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