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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 sees that even the very idea that women are coming together against __________ is dangerous.
(a) Heterophobia.
(b) Homophobia.
(c) Sexism.
(d) Racism.

2. 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) His sister wants him to be.
(c) He wants to be.
(d) She wants him to be.

3. Some white women, according to Audre Lorde, restrict themselves to the __________ community and this angers Lorde.
(a) Art.
(b) Music.
(c) Business.
(d) Academic.

4. Audre Lorde believes that many women would rather group all women into a ___________ than to look at differences.
(a) Protest.
(b) Movement.
(c) Tribe.
(d) Sisterhood.

5. What does Audre Lorde feel can be achieved when people begin to recognize the differences in each other?
(a) Commitment.
(b) Peace.
(c) Honor.
(d) True unity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes that enabling her children to be ___________ with themselves is one of the best gifts she has given them.

2. In what state is Audre Lorde invited to become a poet-in-residence as well as a teacher for students?

3. The _________ of ideas in the movement of the 1960s is one of the lessons which Audre Lorde says must be learned.

4. The _________ of black women seem to be the only people who seem to understand and accept them for who they are.

5. Society would prefer that _________ be the woman's only route to social fulfillment.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Audre Lorde feel are the two facets of the American system which are seen by most an inevitable, in 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 is the unique set of challenges Audre Lorde feels she faces as a black feminist raising a son?

4. What does Audre Lorde believe to be a potentially useful force when it comes to racism and fighting against it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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