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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde feels that the ________ is incomplete without a discussion of the differences between women.
(a) Feminist theory.
(b) Society.
(c) Truth.
(d) Lesbian movement.

2. By recognizing __________, Audre Lorde believes that it is possible to begin to move past them.
(a) Women's rights.
(b) Prejudices.
(c) Mankind's flaws.
(d) Darkness.

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

4. ___________ is the fury of those who do not share our goals and its object is death and destruction.
(a) Hatred.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Anger.

5. In what state is Audre Lorde invited to become a poet-in-residence as well as a teacher for students?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Ohio.

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

7. Bonding between ___________ is seen as threatening to those in patriarchal society, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Mothers.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

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

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

10. Society would prefer that _________ be the woman's only route to social fulfillment.
(a) Reading.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Maternity.

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

12. Audre Lorde believes that there is a trend in America in which radical ________ is attempted by using the same tools.
(a) Writing.
(b) Change.
(c) Truth.
(d) Work.

13. __________ is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Hatred.
(b) Anger.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Segregation.

14. The conference at which Audre Lorde is talking discusses specifically the women who have a problem with the __________ of black women.
(a) Movement.
(b) Anger.
(c) Troubles.
(d) Differences.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes that many groups have avoided discussing anger between ___________ in favor of other concerns.

2. Who commissioned the conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich as it happens in this chapter?

3. At a recent conference, Audre Lorde was told that ________ over the age of ten were not allowed to come.

4. The idea of a __________ is a tool which actively serves to separate the young from the old, according to Audre Lorde.

5. Audre Lorde talks about how ___________ favored her lighter skinned sisters over her during her life.

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