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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hopes and __________ are transformed into language through poetry, which then can lead to action.
(a) Aspirations.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Loves.
(d) Thrills.

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

4. 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.

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

6. Audre Lorde challenges the people at the panel to look at their lives as she looked at her possible _______________.
(a) Cancer treatment.
(b) Surgeries.
(c) Life experiences.
(d) Poems.

7. 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 good in my heart.
(d) Feels right to me.

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

9. 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) Her publisher.
(d) Adrienne Rich.

10. Audre Lorde accuses the author of the article of attacking the black feminists under the guise of trying to __________ with them.
(a) Understand their concerns.
(b) Open a dialogue.
(c) Work.
(d) Make peace.

11. Black females, according to Audre Lorde, have become a primary target for _________ whose cause is external to the black community.
(a) Fear.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Confusion.

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

13. What caused Audre Lorde to examine herself more closely, as she reveals in her talk on the panel?
(a) A lover breakup.
(b) Benign breast tumor removal.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Breast cancer.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The dismissal of the black feminist point of view leads Audre Lorde to threaten _________ between or or separation.

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

4. Audre Lorde characterizes the people in Uzbekistan as being __________ as she moves through the countryside.

5. Who does Audre Lorde feel was left out of the book which Mary Daly has written?

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