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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.
(a) Romantic.
(b) Leisure.
(c) Government.
(d) Community.

3. The acceptance of one's feelings can lead to _____________, thus poetry can help those who are or who feel oppressed.
(a) Results.
(b) Community.
(c) Empowerment.
(d) Honor.

4. Where was the response by Audre Lorde first published for others to read as a response to another article?
(a) Time.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Life.
(d) The Black Scholar.

5. Black men seem to view black women as threatening if they become __________, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Powerful.
(b) Weaker.
(c) Financially successful.
(d) Insubordinate.

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

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

8. American society, according to Audre Lorde, defines human __________ in a limited way, without concern for the emotions.
(a) Power.
(b) Thought.
(c) Need.
(d) Truth.

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

10. Audre Lorde believes the article was simply a show of the proof that the black male community sees black women as a ________ rather than allies.
(a) Annoyance.
(b) Threat.
(c) Distraction.
(d) Terror.

11. Poetry is the essence of _______________, according to the feelings of Audre Lorde.
(a) Maidenhood.
(b) Womanhood.
(c) Power.
(d) Struggles.

12. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic has the capacity to remind Lorde of the human capacity for __________ in the world.
(a) Joy.
(b) Truth.
(c) Connection.
(d) Honor.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.

4. Audre Lorde describes a black woman who once said that ____________ would lead to the extinction of the race as a whole.

5. 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.

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