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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde's experience with beauty, she says, helped her to release her __________ into the world.
(a) Anger.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Creativity.

2. What conference was Audre Lorde speaking at where she gave the speech that is outlined in this section?
(a) Second Sex.
(b) First Woman.
(c) Truth Tools.
(d) Black Women United.

3. 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) Unwillingness.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Understanding.

4. The _________ of black women seem to be the only people who seem to understand and accept them for who they are.
(a) Fathers.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Husbands.
(d) Mothers.

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

6. ___________ based on anger can only destroy the past and is incapable of helping to build a new future.
(a) Strength.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Power.
(d) Movements.

7. Audre Lorde just wants her son to grow up to be who ____________, not to be just like her.
(a) He wants to be.
(b) She wants him to be.
(c) Others want him to be.
(d) His sister wants him to be.

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

9. Audre Lorde's primary reaction to __________ is anger and she feels it is an appropriate response to this problem.
(a) Writing.
(b) Government.
(c) Racism.
(d) The media.

10. Who does Audre Lorde accuse of focusing on the struggles of women as women, rather than as particular kinds of women?
(a) Heterosexual women.
(b) White women.
(c) Lesbian women.
(d) Black women.

11. _________ is a tool which can be used constructively during a moment of frustration, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Sadness.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Anger.
(d) Humor.

12. 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) Kills herself.
(d) Murders her husband's father.

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

14. The __________ are easily conquered, according to Audre Lorde as she speaks and as she writers.
(a) Men.
(b) Divided.
(c) Lesbians.
(d) Women.

15. At the same time, sons of lesbian mothers have to formulate their own ideas about what it means to be __________.
(a) A provider.
(b) A son.
(c) Male.
(d) A female.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde had to learn ____________ at young age because her mother expected her to know what she was thinking.

2. Audre Lorde believes that there is a trend in America in which radical ________ is attempted by using the same tools.

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

4. Instead of telling her son to fight the bullies, Audre Lorde tells her son about how she __________________.

5. Audre Lorde wonders if there are any other groups in the world which are as universally __________ and yet expected to continue functioning within society.

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