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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. The idea of a __________ is a tool which actively serves to separate the young from the old, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Time warp.
(b) Class system.
(c) Glass ceiling.
(d) Generation gap.

2. The _________ of black women seem to be the only people who seem to understand and accept them for who they are.
(a) Husbands.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Sisters.
(d) Fathers.

3. __________, says Audre Lorde, is an ongoing event, as she cites examples which are taking place in the world.
(a) Revolution.
(b) Racism.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Anger.

4. Audre Lorde wonders if there are any other groups in the world which are as universally __________ and yet expected to continue functioning within society.
(a) Loved.
(b) Hated.
(c) Beaten.
(d) Honored.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde truly believes there is an _____________ of the white woman to try to see the struggles of the black woman.

2. Instead of telling her son to fight the bullies, Audre Lorde tells her son about how she __________________.

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

4. According to Audre Lorde, the __________ that black women feel begins to become most important as it is the most powerful.

5. Much of the black community is mired in ___________ due to a false sense of security or despair, according to Audre Lorde.

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of time does Audre Lorde believe that black women have been born into, which makes things more difficult?

2. What happens, according to Audre Lorde, when it comes to the differences between people?

3. What did Audre Lorde's mother favor in terms of her daughters, treating some daughters better than others, in Lorde's opinion?

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

5. What does Audre Lorde encourage the women in the audience to do at the end of her speech?

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

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

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

9. What does Audre Lorde accuse white women of ignoring when it comes to the feminist movement?

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

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