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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 describes a black woman who once said that ____________ would lead to the extinction of the race as a whole.
(a) Homophobia.
(b) Facism.
(c) Racism.
(d) Lesbianism.

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

3. Audre Lorde discusses the topic of ___________ anger against and toward black females in this section.
(a) White male.
(b) White female.
(c) Government.
(d) Black male.

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

5. 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) Terror.
(c) Threat.
(d) Annoyance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde makes a trip to be an observer at the Union of Soviet Writers' African-Asian Writers Conference in __________.

2. What is NOT one of the forms of human blindness which Audre Lorde seeks to define in this section?

3. Horizontal ______ can be a useful tool for those who wish to oppress a given group, according to Audre Lorde.

4. Audre Lorde defines the erotic as both spiritual and ___________ and as a source of power in the world.

5. What imagery does Audre Lorde question in Mary Daly's book as she perceives it to be filled with white examples?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are some of the physical observations that Audre Lorde makes about the city of Moscow?

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

5. What are some of the ills of modern life which Audre Lorde believes poetry can help to cure?

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

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

8. What is the significant event which occurred just a little while after the letter of this section was written?

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

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

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