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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. _________ is a tool which can be used constructively during a moment of frustration, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Humor.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Anger.
(d) Sadness.

2. Audre Lorde talks about how ___________ favored her lighter skinned sisters over her during her life.
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her grandma.

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

4. Audre Lorde urges the _________ to look inside themselves in order to begin to create change.
(a) Men.
(b) Government.
(c) Audience.
(d) Children.

5. Black women, according to Audre Lorde, seem to absorb the __________ of society from a young age.
(a) Truth.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Confusion.

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. Audre Lorde believes there are two reactions which are of no help to anyone - ___________ and defensiveness.

3. There is a long history of support and the _________ of power within the black female community, according to Audre Lorde.

4. How old is Audre Lorde's son at the time when she has written this section?

5. Some white women, according to Audre Lorde, restrict themselves to the __________ community and this angers Lorde.

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 does Audre Lorde believe needs to happen in order for prejudice and oppression to be transcended?

3. What does Audre Lorde feel are the two facets of the American system which are seen by most an inevitable, in this essay?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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