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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the author of the essay to which Audre Lorde decides to respond, as it was published in the same journal earlier in the year?
(a) Robert Staples.
(b) Jackson Smith.
(c) Michael Moorhead.
(d) Robert Smith.

3. Audre Lorde sees ____________ as a group that is very visible as 'different' but also invisible as second class citizens.
(a) Black women.
(b) Women.
(c) White women.
(d) Black children.

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

5. Audre Lorde sees that black men encourage black women to identify themselves in terms of their ___________ to their black male partners.
(a) Children.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Permissiveness.
(d) Allegiance.

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

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

8. Misconceptions can lead to the fear that another group's ____________ at securing some of their freedom will take it away from other groups.
(a) Leadership.
(b) Success.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Commitment.

9. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.
(a) Book.
(b) Art.
(c) Pornography.
(d) Poetry.

10. Audre Lorde characterizes the people in Uzbekistan as being __________ as she moves through the countryside.
(a) Dull.
(b) Industrious.
(c) Helpful.
(d) Lazy.

11. The erotic is dangerous as once satisfaction is experienced, it is much harder for a person _____________.
(a) To find more.
(b) To settle for less.
(c) To look for more.
(d) To forget.

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

13. Women are not to ignore the power of the erotic in the service of ________, when this power can be psychically milked from them.
(a) Women.
(b) God.
(c) Men.
(d) The government.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.

2. To what city does Audre Lorde compare the atmosphere and the weather of Moscow?

3. Where was the response by Audre Lorde first published for others to read as a response to another article?

4. What is NOT one of the forms of human blindness which Audre Lorde seeks to define in this section?

5. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.

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