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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The interview between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich was first published in _________ before being included in a book.
(a) Time.
(b) Life.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) Signs.

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

4. Where was Audre Lorde when she learned that Martin Luther King had been killed?
(a) Home.
(b) Carnegie Hall.
(c) Church.
(d) On a walk through town.

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

6. Audre Lorde feels that when she does have anger, it is most easily expressed toward _______________.
(a) Other black women.
(b) White men.
(c) Herself.
(d) White women.

7. Audre Lorde had to learn ____________ at young age because her mother expected her to know what she was thinking.
(a) Nonverbal communication.
(b) English.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Sign language.

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

9. Who in Audre Lorde's life used to make up words when they could not come up with the word they needed?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her mom.
(d) Her dad.

10. This section's essay was first given to an audience at ___________ College in April of 1980.
(a) Georgetown.
(b) Amherst.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Boston.

11. Many women seem to dismiss Audre Lorde's anger as something which is ___________ or useless, but Lorde sees it as useful.
(a) Unfounded.
(b) Disruptive.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Blameless.

12. How old is Audre Lorde's son at the time when she has written this section?
(a) 10.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

13. Rich asks Audre Lorde why she calls two of her poems ___________ when she speaks of them.
(a) Progressions.
(b) Lies.
(c) Travesties.
(d) Disappointments.

14. What does Audre Lorde feel can be achieved when people begin to recognize the differences in each other?
(a) Commitment.
(b) True unity.
(c) Honor.
(d) Peace.

15. Malcolm X got closer to understanding the complexities of ____________ than any other person that Audre Lorde observed.
(a) Oppression.
(b) Social change.
(c) Racism.
(d) Sexism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term that Audre Lorde feels is being used in the black community in a derogatory way for a self-identified, independent woman?

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

3. Audre Lorde believes that many women would rather group all women into a ___________ than to look at differences.

4. _________, Audre Lorde says, is needed to work toward change, though it does not need to include violence.

5. Audre Lorde believes that in order to stop oppression and prejudice, new __________ must be created.

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