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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Audre Lorde feel was left out of the book which Mary Daly has written?
(a) Black women.
(b) Modern women.
(c) White women.
(d) Lesbian women.

2. Where was the response by Audre Lorde first published for others to read as a response to another article?
(a) Life.
(b) Time.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) The Black Scholar.

3. Whose murder does Audre Lorde bring up in order to show the senselessness of misdirection?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Judy Barry.
(c) Patricia Cowan.
(d) Constance Stamos.

4. Audre Lorde points out that productivity in Russia is measured by ___________ and not by money as it is in other areas.
(a) Food.
(b) Power.
(c) Community.
(d) Cleanliness.

5. Poetry is the essence of _______________, according to the feelings of Audre Lorde.
(a) Struggles.
(b) Womanhood.
(c) Power.
(d) Maidenhood.

6. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.
(a) Effectiveness.
(b) Mortality.
(c) Logic.
(d) Poetry.

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

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

9. Mary Daly was trying to overcome the repressive forces of the ______________, according to Audre Lorde's point of view.
(a) The US government.
(b) Harvard.
(c) University of Boston.
(d) Yale.

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

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

12. Efik Ebibio is married to a man, but actively speaks of a ___________ relationship with another married woman.
(a) Marriage.
(b) Lesbian.
(c) Friend.
(d) Professional.

13. Audre Lorde believes there are no new _________ still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as humans.
(a) Books.
(b) Men.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Ideas.

14. 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) Environmental destruction.
(c) Institutional dehumanization.
(d) Unhealthy focus on profit.

15. What is NOT one of the forms of human blindness which Audre Lorde seeks to define in this section?
(a) Racism.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Homophobia.
(d) Intellectual snobbery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes the article was simply a show of the proof that the black male community sees black women as a ________ rather than allies.

2. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is able to express ____________ , which are then a direct link back to the ancient society.

3. The erotic is dangerous as once satisfaction is experienced, it is much harder for a person _____________.

4. What imagery does Audre Lorde question in Mary Daly's book as she perceives it to be filled with white examples?

5. The erotic is a depth of _______________ that women in this society are encouraged to ignore, according to Audre Lorde.

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