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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 just wants her son to grow up to be who ____________, not to be just like her.
(a) Others want him to be.
(b) He wants to be.
(c) She wants him to be.
(d) His sister wants him to be.

2. Audre Lorde learned from the 1960s that she needed to define ____________ for herself and not let others do this job.
(a) Truth.
(b) Honor.
(c) Anger.
(d) Herself.

3. As a child, Audre Lorde began to wonder if _______ meant bad, according to her essay.
(a) Black.
(b) Woman.
(c) Man.
(d) White.

4. This section's essay was first given to an audience at ___________ College in April of 1980.
(a) Boston.
(b) Georgetown.
(c) Amherst.
(d) Harvard.

5. In the story of La Llorona, the mother ___________ in retaliation for her husband's infidelity, as well as doing the same to his mother.
(a) Drowns her own children.
(b) Murders her husband's father.
(c) Murders her sister.
(d) Kills herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ is such a commonplace feeling for black women that Audre Lorde herself sees no reason not to inflict it upon another.

2. ___________ is the fury of those who do not share our goals and its object is death and destruction.

3. Where was Audre Lorde when she learned that Martin Luther King had been killed?

4. Audre Lorde cites a bias against _________ as one of the examples of how classism can impact society.

5. White women have the option of identifying themselves with the white patriarchy in order to gain power by _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Audre Lorde say that all black women have inside of them, something she has spent her life trying to express?

2. Why did Audre Lorde use a pseudonym when she wrote the story about La Lllorona?

3. What is the caveat that Audre Lorde makes at the start of the essay about her relationship with her son?

4. What are the three terms which Audre Lorde seeks to differentiate within this essay?

5. What is the piece of advice that Audre Lorde almost gives to her son after a series of bullying?

6. What does Audre Lorde feel that Malcolm X began to grasp in terms of the lingering effects of oppression?

7. Why does Audre Lorde believe it is important to discuss difference in the lives of women?

8. What did Audre Lorde's mother used to do when she could not find a word for the meaning that she wanted to convey?

9. What does Audre Lorde feel can lead to greater unity within a group, whether they are oppressed or not?

10. What is the mistake of the 1960s that Audre Lorde feels society and future movements need to learn from?

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