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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. What imagery does Audre Lorde question in Mary Daly's book as she perceives it to be filled with white examples?
(a) Goddess.
(b) Erotic.
(c) Relationship.
(d) Love.

2. The Great American Double Think is a symptom of the __________ thought processes, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Black male centric.
(b) Lazy black male.
(c) White male centric.
(d) Tired male.

3. Audre Lorde points out the flaw in thinking that another group freedom of ___________ is to jeopardize one's own freedoms.
(a) Demonstration.
(b) Honor.
(c) Truth.
(d) Expression.

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

5. Who was the person which send the copy of Mary Daly's book to Audre Lorde in order to review it?
(a) Mary Daly.
(b) Robert Staples.
(c) Adrienne Rich.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.

2. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?

3. When emotional concerns are ignored, the erotic becomes a simple unpleasant _______________, which takes the passion away.

4. Audre Lorde decided to publish the open letter to Mary Daly after sending it to her and receiving ______________.

5. 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.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Audre Lorde make the trip to Russia as she describes it at the start of the book?

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

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

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

5. What are the four forms of human blindness, according to Audre Lorde in this section?

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

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

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

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

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

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