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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde learned from the 1960s that she needed to define ____________ for herself and not let others do this job.
(a) Truth.
(b) Herself.
(c) Anger.
(d) Honor.

2. Some white women, according to Audre Lorde, restrict themselves to the __________ community and this angers Lorde.
(a) Music.
(b) Academic.
(c) Art.
(d) Business.

3. Another byproduct of society, according to Audre Lorde, is that he burden of explanation is put on ______________.
(a) No one.
(b) The men.
(c) The outsiders.
(d) The oppressed group.

4. Audre Lorde believes that many groups have avoided discussing anger between ___________ in favor of other concerns.
(a) Men.
(b) Sexual orientations.
(c) Races.
(d) Women.

5. Audre Lorde posits that black women have troubles connecting with each other because of a fear of each other's __________.
(a) Story.
(b) Anger.
(c) Power.
(d) Family.

6. Audre Lorde warns those in the audience that they should stay away from __________ the past and instead try to learn from it.
(a) Criticizing.
(b) Staying in.
(c) Romanticizing.
(d) Ignoring.

7. According to Audre Lorde, the __________ that black women feel begins to become most important as it is the most powerful.
(a) Anger.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Truth.

8. _________, Audre Lorde says, is needed to work toward change, though it does not need to include violence.
(a) Militancy.
(b) War.
(c) Movement.
(d) Anger.

9. The idea of a __________ is a tool which actively serves to separate the young from the old, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Time warp.
(b) Glass ceiling.
(c) Generation gap.
(d) Class system.

10. In the story of La Llorona, the mother ___________ in retaliation for her husband's infidelity, as well as doing the same to his mother.
(a) Drowns her own children.
(b) Murders her sister.
(c) Murders her husband's father.
(d) Kills herself.

11. Where was Audre Lorde when she had the intense experience with the beauty of the land at the age of nineteen?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) Grenada.
(d) New Mexico.

12. Audre Lorde talks about how ___________ favored her lighter skinned sisters over her during her life.
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her grandma.

13. Audre Lorde cites a bias against _________ as one of the examples of how classism can impact society.
(a) Minimum wage.
(b) Lesbians.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Poverty.

14. One of the main problems Audre Lorde saw during the 1960s was a perceived need for __________ in the movement.
(a) Quiet.
(b) Truth.
(c) Homogeneity.
(d) Anger.

15. Audre Lorde truly believes there is an _____________ of the white woman to try to see the struggles of the black woman.
(a) Unsung need.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Unwillingness.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the same time, sons of lesbian mothers have to formulate their own ideas about what it means to be __________.

2. As a child, Audre Lorde began to wonder if _______ meant bad, according to her essay.

3. ___________ based on anger can only destroy the past and is incapable of helping to build a new future.

4. Outsiders are like ___________ within a society which is based on profits, according to Audre Lorde.

5. Audre Lorde believes that the revelation that she too has __________________ is something which will help her son cope.

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