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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 enabling her children to be ___________ with themselves is one of the best gifts she has given them.
(a) Content.
(b) Sad.
(c) Honest.
(d) Happy.

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

3. Audre Lorde feels that the erotic can be a tool for ____________ and an energizing force to bring about change.
(a) Empowerment.
(b) Black communities.
(c) Truth.
(d) Government.

4. Who does Audre Lorde accuse of focusing on the struggles of women as women, rather than as particular kinds of women?
(a) Black women.
(b) Heterosexual women.
(c) Lesbian women.
(d) White women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde points out that productivity in Russia is measured by ___________ and not by money as it is in other areas.

2. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.

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

4. What is the name of the translator that Audre Lorde brings along with her in her travels in Russia?

5. The dismissal of the black feminist point of view leads Audre Lorde to threaten _________ between or or separation.

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