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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. Who commissioned the conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich as it happens in this chapter?
(a) Joseph Moyers.
(b) Richard Staples.
(c) Mary Daly.
(d) Marilyn Hacker.

2. Who in Audre Lorde's life used to make up words when they could not come up with the word they needed?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her dad.
(c) Her mom.
(d) Her sister.

3. Where was Audre Lorde when she had the intense experience with the beauty of the land at the age of nineteen?
(a) Grenada.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) New Mexico.

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

5. The interview between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich was first published in _________ before being included in a book.
(a) Signs.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) Time.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. The piece that Audre Lorde writes to Mary Daly was written after the murder of _______ black women in the Boston area.

4. In the thinking about outsiders, ____________ are considered best either ignored, copied or destroyed.

5. Audre Lorde wants to point out that one ________________ does not justify another and the other author's method of expressing this was misguided.

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