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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. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.
(a) Power.
(b) Life.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Masculinity.

2. What is the name of the translator that Audre Lorde brings along with her in her travels in Russia?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Athena.
(c) Margot.
(d) Helen.

3. Audre Lorde defines the erotic as both spiritual and ___________ and as a source of power in the world.
(a) Female.
(b) Heterosexual.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Male.

4. What is NOT one of the ills of life which poetry serves to cure, acting as an antidote to these ills, according to Audre Lorde?
(a) Unhealthy focus on profit.
(b) Institutional dehumanization.
(c) Linear power.
(d) Environmental destruction.

5. Audre Lorde points out that productivity in Russia is measured by ___________ and not by money as it is in other areas.
(a) Cleanliness.
(b) Food.
(c) Community.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde's experience with beauty, she says, helped her to release her __________ into the world.

2. What caused Audre Lorde to examine herself more closely, as she reveals in her talk on the panel?

3. Audre Lorde cites a bias against _________ as one of the examples of how classism can impact society.

4. What is NOT one of the viewpoints which is being discussed on the panel which Audre Lorde is on?

5. Audre Lorde believes that there is a trend in America in which radical ________ is attempted by using the same tools.

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