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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. Who commissioned the conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich as it happens in this chapter?
(a) Mary Daly.
(b) Richard Staples.
(c) Joseph Moyers.
(d) Marilyn Hacker.

2. The interview between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich was first published in _________ before being included in a book.
(a) Life.
(b) Signs.
(c) Time.
(d) The New York Times.

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

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

5. By recognizing __________, Audre Lorde believes that it is possible to begin to move past them.
(a) Mankind's flaws.
(b) Prejudices.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Women's rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde admits that she can only deal with her ___________ and that she will try not to make generalizations.

2. Outsiders are like ___________ within a society which is based on profits, according to Audre Lorde.

3. _________, Audre Lorde says, is needed to work toward change, though it does not need to include violence.

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

5. This section's essay was first given to an audience at ___________ College in April of 1980.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why might black women might not be able to love each other, according to Audre Lorde?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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