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

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

3. The acceptance of one's feelings can lead to _____________, thus poetry can help those who are or who feel oppressed.
(a) Community.
(b) Empowerment.
(c) Honor.
(d) Results.

4. Poetry is equivalent to _________ rather than to thinking, according to Audre Lorde, and is more essential than thesis-based writing.
(a) Feeling.
(b) Being.
(c) Shouting.
(d) Singing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde characterizes the people in Uzbekistan as being __________ as she moves through the countryside.

2. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.

3. Audre Lorde asks the audience what __________ they might be enduring in silence rather than speaking against them.

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

5. Black men seem to view black women as threatening if they become __________, according to Audre Lorde.

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