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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. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.
(a) Effectiveness.
(b) Mortality.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Logic.

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

3. Instead of World War II, what do the Russians call this war, according to the findings of Audre Lorde?
(a) Great Patriotic War.
(b) The Good War.
(c) The World War III.
(d) The Bad War.

4. Audre Lorde believes there are no new _________ still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as humans.
(a) Books.
(b) Men.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Leaders.

5. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.
(a) Book.
(b) Pornography.
(c) Art.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Poetry is the essence of _______________, according to the feelings of Audre Lorde.

2. American society, according to Audre Lorde, defines human __________ in a limited way, without concern for the emotions.

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

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

5. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of simply browsing the works of black women for __________, rather than actually reading them.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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