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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 wants to point out that one ________________ does not justify another and the other author's method of expressing this was misguided.
(a) Method of persecution.
(b) Shout in anger.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Lie.

2. The erotic is dangerous as once satisfaction is experienced, it is much harder for a person _____________.
(a) To find more.
(b) To look for more.
(c) To settle for less.
(d) To forget.

3. Audre Lorde sees poetry as the formation of ______________, rather than helping to express what's already there.
(a) Truths.
(b) Progress.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Femininity.

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

5. 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?
(a) Robert Staples.
(b) Jackson Smith.
(c) Michael Moorhead.
(d) Robert Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is able to express ____________ , which are then a direct link back to the ancient society.

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

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

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

5. The acceptance of one's feelings can lead to _____________, thus poetry can help those who are or who feel oppressed.

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