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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is able to express ____________ , which are then a direct link back to the ancient society.
(a) Love qualities.
(b) Truths.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Questions.

2. Audre Lorde asks the audience what __________ they might be enduring in silence rather than speaking against them.
(a) Lies.
(b) Powers.
(c) Injustices.
(d) Laws.

3. Another byproduct of society, according to Audre Lorde, is that he burden of explanation is put on ______________.
(a) The oppressed group.
(b) The men.
(c) The outsiders.
(d) No one.

4. Audre Lorde believes that many women would rather group all women into a ___________ than to look at differences.
(a) Tribe.
(b) Movement.
(c) Protest.
(d) Sisterhood.

5. Audre Lorde admits that she can only deal with her ___________ and that she will try not to make generalizations.
(a) Own experience.
(b) Logic.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Truths.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the same time, sons of lesbian mothers have to formulate their own ideas about what it means to be __________.

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

3. 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.

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

5. In the story of La Llorona, the mother ___________ in retaliation for her husband's infidelity, as well as doing the same to his mother.

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