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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. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.
(a) Male.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Female.

2. 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) Distraction.
(b) Annoyance.
(c) Terror.
(d) Threat.

3. What caused Audre Lorde to examine herself more closely, as she reveals in her talk on the panel?
(a) Breast cancer.
(b) Benign breast tumor removal.
(c) A lover breakup.
(d) Her husband.

4. Efik Ebibio is married to a man, but actively speaks of a ___________ relationship with another married woman.
(a) Marriage.
(b) Friend.
(c) Lesbian.
(d) Professional.

5. What is the name of the translator that Audre Lorde brings along with her in her travels in Russia?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Athena.
(c) Margot.
(d) Helen.

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.

2. Audre Lorde meets a women with whom she identifies strongly, at the ___________ Collective.

3. In dreams that Audre Lorde has after her trip to Russia, she begins to believe that Russia became a mythic representation of that ___________ does not yet exist anywhere she has been.

4. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.

5. Instead of World War II, what do the Russians call this war, according to the findings of Audre Lorde?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads to better decision making, in Audre Lorde's opinion, which becomes a source of power?

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

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

4. What does Audre Lorde say that life experience gives to her in relation to her expression?

5. What does Audre Lorde says is a symptom of white male-centric thought processes?

6. How does Audre Lorde define the idea of erotic and what it means to be erotic in the context of this chapter?

7. What is the state of Uzbekistan's official position, with which Audre Lorde credits the area for its tolerance?

8. What happens to old ideas when they are presented within the context of poetry, according to Audre Lorde?

9. Where did Audre Lorde give the speech "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action"?

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

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