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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. 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) Kills herself.
(d) Murders her sister.

2. Who does Audre Lorde accuse of focusing on the struggles of women as women, rather than as particular kinds of women?
(a) Lesbian women.
(b) Black women.
(c) Heterosexual women.
(d) White women.

3. ___________ based on anger can only destroy the past and is incapable of helping to build a new future.
(a) Movements.
(b) Power.
(c) Strength.
(d) Ideas.

4. At a recent conference, Audre Lorde was told that ________ over the age of ten were not allowed to come.
(a) Boys.
(b) Girls.
(c) Black men.
(d) Black women.

5. During Malcolm X weekend, Audre Lorde speaks at __________ to see if there are lessons to be used from the 1960s.
(a) Boston College.
(b) Yale.
(c) Exeter.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. The idea of a __________ is a tool which actively serves to separate the young from the old, according to Audre Lorde.

2. It becomes necessary to expose the _________________ that can tear a community apart in order to be successful.

3. Audre Lorde wonders if there are any other groups in the world which are as universally __________ and yet expected to continue functioning within society.

4. What is the name of Audre Lorde's son who is featured within this section of the book?

5. Audre Lorde thinks it to be wrong to bottle up anger and then later unleash it on a/an _________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Audre Lorde feel makes guilt useless in society and in the fight for rights, according to this essay?

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

3. What does society seem to say about the oppressed person and what they have to do in society, according to Audre Lorde?

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

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

6. What does Audre Lorde point out to be used as a derogatory term in the black community for a self-identified and independent woman?

7. What is the unique set of challenges Audre Lorde feels she faces as a black feminist raising a son?

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

10. How does Audre Lorde describe two of her poems "Poetry is Not a Luxury" and "Uses of the Erotic"?

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