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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Relationship.
(d) Erotic.

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

3. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.
(a) Boredom.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Separation.

4. 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) New York.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Illinois.

5. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is able to express ____________ , which are then a direct link back to the ancient society.
(a) Love qualities.
(b) Truths.
(c) Questions.
(d) Feelings.

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

7. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of using her _________ to legitimize her writing in the eyes of black women readers.
(a) Picture.
(b) Review.
(c) Words.
(d) Ideas.

8. One of the reasons which Audre Lorde believes leads to silence in one's life is ______________.
(a) Discrimination.
(b) Femininity.
(c) Poor writing.
(d) Poor community support.

9. Even if Audre Lorde was punished or misunderstood for _________, she notes that she regrets only those times when she was silent.
(a) Speaking.
(b) Crying.
(c) Writing.
(d) Singing.

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

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

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

13. The title of the article to which Audre Lorde decides to respond is, "The Myth of ___________: A Response to Angry Black Feminists."
(a) Black Disconnect.
(b) Black Men.
(c) Black Anger.
(d) Black Macho.

14. Mary Daly is the __________ female author of "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism."
(a) White.
(b) Married.
(c) Black.
(d) Christian.

15. Who was the person which send the copy of Mary Daly's book to Audre Lorde in order to review it?
(a) Mary Daly.
(b) No one.
(c) Adrienne Rich.
(d) Robert Staples.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hopes and __________ are transformed into language through poetry, which then can lead to action.

2. Black men seem to view black women as threatening if they become __________, according to Audre Lorde.

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?

4. Audre Lorde points out the flaw in thinking that another group freedom of ___________ is to jeopardize one's own freedoms.

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

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