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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When emotional concerns are ignored, the erotic becomes a simple unpleasant _______________, which takes the passion away.
(a) Object.
(b) Necessity.
(c) Picture.
(d) Act.

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

3. ____________ can create an illusion of protection from those who might wish one harm, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Rights.
(b) Government power.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Invisibility.

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

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

6. 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) Michael Moorhead.
(b) Robert Smith.
(c) Jackson Smith.
(d) Robert Staples.

7. Audre Lorde discusses the topic of ___________ anger against and toward black females in this section.
(a) Black male.
(b) White male.
(c) Government.
(d) White female.

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. __________ allows injustices to go unheard and fears to remain powerful, according to Audre Lorde in her talk.
(a) Mankind.
(b) Society.
(c) Silence.
(d) Book reading.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The erotic is dangerous as once satisfaction is experienced, it is much harder for a person _____________.

2. Expression through poetry leads to new ideas that are more easily formed on the ___________ level of poems.

3. Women are frequently taught that the erotic is only of use within the realm of __________.

4. Audre Lorde accuses Mary Daly of completely dismissing the influence of ____________ in history.

5. Audre Lorde challenges the people at the panel to look at their lives as she looked at her possible _______________.

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