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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?
(a) Unwillingness to learn.
(b) Racism.
(c) Choosing to play dumb.
(d) Reverse snobbery.

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

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

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

5. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.
(a) Black.
(b) Female.
(c) Male.
(d) White.

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

7. Audre Lorde decided to publish the open letter to Mary Daly after sending it to her and receiving ______________.
(a) No reply.
(b) The book rewritten.
(c) An angry reply.
(d) The letter back, unread.

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

9. Audre Lorde accuses Mary Daly of completely dismissing the influence of ____________ in history.
(a) Black women.
(b) White men.
(c) Black men.
(d) Poets.

10. The Great American Double Think is a symptom of the __________ thought processes, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Black male centric.
(b) Lazy black male.
(c) White male centric.
(d) Tired male.

11. The dismissal of other points of view, according to Audre Lorde, act as barriers to _____________ as other forms of racism do too.
(a) Power.
(b) Truth.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Peace.

12. Audre Lorde believe the forms of human blindness can be remedied through the realization that ___________ can be enriching.
(a) Sameness.
(b) Differences.
(c) Community.
(d) Blindness.

13. Instead of World War II, what do the Russians call this war, according to the findings of Audre Lorde?
(a) The Good War.
(b) The Bad War.
(c) The World War III.
(d) Great Patriotic War.

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

15. Audre Lorde points out the flaw in thinking that another group freedom of ___________ is to jeopardize one's own freedoms.
(a) Truth.
(b) Expression.
(c) Honor.
(d) Demonstration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde begins to believe that important issues are better to be ___________ than to go unexpressed in the world.

2. ____________ can create an illusion of protection from those who might wish one harm, according to Audre Lorde.

3. Black __________ are even more threatening, according to Audre Lorde, since they do not fit into a _____________.

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

5. What caused Audre Lorde to examine herself more closely, as she reveals in her talk on the panel?

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