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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde meets a women with whom she identifies strongly, at the ___________ Collective.
(a) Womens.
(b) Leningrad.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Stalingrad.

2. Audre Lorde discusses the topic of ___________ anger against and toward black females in this section.
(a) Government.
(b) White female.
(c) Black male.
(d) White male.

3. Erotic provides the ___________ of sharing an experience with another, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Power.
(b) Belief.
(c) Connection.
(d) Truth.

4. Audre Lorde wants to point out that one ________________ does not justify another and the other author's method of expressing this was misguided.
(a) Method of persecution.
(b) Lie.
(c) Shout in anger.
(d) Oppression.

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

6. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic has the capacity to remind Lorde of the human capacity for __________ in the world.
(a) Honor.
(b) Connection.
(c) Joy.
(d) Truth.

7. Who greets Audre Lorde at the airport when she travels to Tashket, a city which reminds her of Ghana?
(a) Children.
(b) Adrienne Rich.
(c) A priest.
(d) Her publisher.

8. Expression through poetry leads to new ideas that are more easily formed on the ___________ level of poems.
(a) Logical.
(b) Rational.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Ethical.

9. Audre Lorde accuses the author of the article of attacking the black feminists under the guise of trying to __________ with them.
(a) Open a dialogue.
(b) Work.
(c) Make peace.
(d) Understand their concerns.

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

11. 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) Linear power.
(b) Institutional dehumanization.
(c) Environmental destruction.
(d) Unhealthy focus on profit.

12. To what city does Audre Lorde compare the atmosphere and the weather of Moscow?
(a) London.
(b) Berlin.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

13. __________ allows injustices to go unheard and fears to remain powerful, according to Audre Lorde in her talk.
(a) Mankind.
(b) Society.
(c) Silence.
(d) Book reading.

14. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.
(a) Black lesbians.
(b) American blacks.
(c) Women writers.
(d) Negro policy.

15. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic is summed up by her own phrase, "It _____________."
(a) Feels right to my partners.
(b) Feels good in my heart.
(c) Feels right to me.
(d) Looks right to me.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.

2. Audre Lorde believes there are no new _________ still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as humans.

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

4. Whose murder does Audre Lorde bring up in order to show the senselessness of misdirection?

5. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.

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