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

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

3. Black females, according to Audre Lorde, have become a primary target for _________ whose cause is external to the black community.
(a) Confusion.
(b) Fear.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Anger.

4. Audre Lorde just wants her son to grow up to be who ____________, not to be just like her.
(a) Others want him to be.
(b) His sister wants him to be.
(c) She wants him to be.
(d) He wants to be.

5. What imagery does Audre Lorde question in Mary Daly's book as she perceives it to be filled with white examples?
(a) Erotic.
(b) Love.
(c) Goddess.
(d) Relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde sees the Soviet Union as placing its___________ at the core of its programs, at least officially.

2. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of simply browsing the works of black women for __________, rather than actually reading them.

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

4. Where was Audre Lorde when she learned that Martin Luther King had been killed?

5. Audre Lorde had to learn ____________ at young age because her mother expected her to know what she was thinking.

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