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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.
(a) Annoyance.
(b) Threat.
(c) Terror.
(d) Distraction.

3. 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.

4. The dismissal of the black feminist point of view leads Audre Lorde to threaten _________ between or or separation.
(a) Opposition.
(b) Anger.
(c) Distrust.
(d) War.

5. At a _________ state college, women tried to come together to support each other, only to be met with violence and shunned by their male peers.
(a) Illinois.
(b) New York.
(c) Vermont.
(d) Michigan.

6. Audre Lorde sees the Soviet Union as placing its___________ at the core of its programs, at least officially.
(a) Pride.
(b) Talents.
(c) Natural resources.
(d) People.

7. American society, according to Audre Lorde, defines human __________ in a limited way, without concern for the emotions.
(a) Truth.
(b) Power.
(c) Need.
(d) Thought.

8. Black men seem to view black women as threatening if they become __________, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Financially successful.
(b) Insubordinate.
(c) Weaker.
(d) Powerful.

9. Audre Lorde feels that the erotic can be a tool for ____________ and an energizing force to bring about change.
(a) Black communities.
(b) Empowerment.
(c) Government.
(d) Truth.

10. The piece that Audre Lorde writes to Mary Daly was written after the murder of _______ black women in the Boston area.
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 12.
(d) 25.

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

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

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

14. Audre Lorde sees poetry as the formation of ______________, rather than helping to express what's already there.
(a) Truths.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Femininity.
(d) Progress.

15. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Courage.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde accuses the author of the article of attacking the black feminists under the guise of trying to __________ with them.

2. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of using her _________ to legitimize her writing in the eyes of black women readers.

3. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic is summed up by her own phrase, "It _____________."

4. Mary Daly is the __________ female author of "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism."

5. This section encompasses a talk which Audre Lorde gave during a "Lesbian and _________ Panel" in 1977.

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