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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Method of persecution.
(c) Lie.
(d) Oppression.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. The erotic is a depth of _______________ that women in this society are encouraged to ignore, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Truth.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Commitment.
(d) Power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of simply browsing the works of black women for __________, rather than actually reading them.
(a) Quotes.
(b) Support.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Agreements.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary Daly is the __________ female author of "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism."

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?

3. The dismissal of other points of view, according to Audre Lorde, act as barriers to _____________ as other forms of racism do too.

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

5. When emotional concerns are ignored, the erotic becomes a simple unpleasant _______________, which takes the passion away.

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