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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The erotic is dangerous as once satisfaction is experienced, it is much harder for a person _____________.
(a) To settle for less.
(b) To find more.
(c) To forget.
(d) To look for more.

2. Audre Lorde wants to point out that one ________________ does not justify another and the other author's method of expressing this was misguided.
(a) Method of persecution.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Lie.
(d) Shout in anger.

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. 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) Illinois.
(c) Vermont.
(d) New York.

10. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.
(a) Pornography.
(b) Book.
(c) Art.
(d) Poetry.

11. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.
(a) Co-wives.
(b) Medicine women.
(c) Goddesses.
(d) Settlers.

12. The dismissal of the black feminist point of view leads Audre Lorde to threaten _________ between or or separation.
(a) War.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Distrust.
(d) Anger.

13. Erotic provides the ___________ of sharing an experience with another, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Connection.
(b) Truth.
(c) Belief.
(d) Power.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde defines the erotic as both spiritual and ___________ and as a source of power in the world.

2. The piece that Audre Lorde writes to Mary Daly was written after the murder of _______ black women in the Boston area.

3. The _______ that the black men manifest toward black women would, according to Audre Lorde, be more effective as a force for greater change.

4. This section encompasses a talk which Audre Lorde gave during a "Lesbian and _________ Panel" in 1977.

5. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic is summed up by her own phrase, "It _____________."

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