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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. In the story of La Llorona, the mother ___________ in retaliation for her husband's infidelity, as well as doing the same to his mother.
(a) Murders her husband's father.
(b) Kills herself.
(c) Drowns her own children.
(d) Murders her sister.

2. Audre Lorde describes a black woman who once said that ____________ would lead to the extinction of the race as a whole.
(a) Homophobia.
(b) Racism.
(c) Facism.
(d) Lesbianism.

3. Outsiders are like ___________ within a society which is based on profits, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Surplus people.
(b) Children.
(c) Waste.
(d) Echoes.

4. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of using her _________ to legitimize her writing in the eyes of black women readers.
(a) Picture.
(b) Words.
(c) Review.
(d) Ideas.

5. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.
(a) Medicine women.
(b) Goddesses.
(c) Settlers.
(d) Co-wives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Audre Lorde believes there are two reactions which are of no help to anyone - ___________ and defensiveness.

3. The Great American Double Think is a symptom of the __________ thought processes, according to Audre Lorde.

4. Who commissioned the conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich as it happens in this chapter?

5. Instead of telling her son to fight the bullies, Audre Lorde tells her son about how she __________________.

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