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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Audre Lorde feel was left out of the book which Mary Daly has written?
(a) Lesbian women.
(b) White women.
(c) Black women.
(d) Modern women.

2. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?
(a) Choosing to play dumb.
(b) Racism.
(c) Reverse snobbery.
(d) Unwillingness to learn.

3. 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.

4. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.
(a) Creativity.
(b) Courage.
(c) Inspiration.
(d) Power.

5. Audre Lorde accuses the author of the article of attacking the black feminists under the guise of trying to __________ with them.
(a) Work.
(b) Make peace.
(c) Open a dialogue.
(d) Understand their concerns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose murder does Audre Lorde bring up in order to show the senselessness of misdirection?

2. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.

3. Audre Lorde points out that productivity in Russia is measured by ___________ and not by money as it is in other areas.

4. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.

5. Who greets Audre Lorde at the airport when she travels to Tashket, a city which reminds her of Ghana?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Audre Lorde suggest that Mary Daly has completely dismissed in her book when she reviews it?

2. To what is this section of the book responding to? Who is Audre Lorde sending this letter in response to?

3. What happens to injustices when they are left silent, according to Audre Lorde's speech in this section?

4. What happens to hopes and to dreams when they are put into language in poetry, according to Audre Lorde?

5. What happened at a New York state college, according to Audre Lorde, when talking about the barriers to women?

6. What is the difference between pornography and erotic, according to Audre Lorde in this chapter?

7. What are the two ways, according to Audre Lorde, in which the erotic can serve a person?

8. How does Audre Lorde define the idea of women-identified women, according to her speech?

9. To what does Audre Lorde attribute the intense distrust between black women in her society?

10. What are some of the regrets that Audre Lorde sees in her own life as she admits in her speech?

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