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

2. The dismissal of the black feminist point of view leads Audre Lorde to threaten _________ between or or separation.
(a) Distrust.
(b) Opposition.
(c) War.
(d) Anger.

3. Poetry is the essence of _______________, according to the feelings of Audre Lorde.
(a) Maidenhood.
(b) Struggles.
(c) Womanhood.
(d) Power.

4. Who greets Audre Lorde at the airport when she travels to Tashket, a city which reminds her of Ghana?
(a) Her publisher.
(b) Children.
(c) Adrienne Rich.
(d) A priest.

5. Black men seem to view black women as threatening if they become __________, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Powerful.
(b) Weaker.
(c) Insubordinate.
(d) Financially successful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Expression through poetry leads to new ideas that are more easily formed on the ___________ level of poems.

2. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.

3. Who is the author of the essay to which Audre Lorde decides to respond, as it was published in the same journal earlier in the year?

4. At a _________ state college, women tried to come together to support each other, only to be met with violence and shunned by their male peers.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the complaint that Helen tells Audre Lorde about the Russian working class, although Lorde disagrees?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Staples' article seem to think of black women, according to the way Audre Lorde interprets it?

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

10. Why does Audre Lorde include the example of Patricia Cowan's murder in her essay response?

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