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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 thinking about outsiders, ____________ are considered best either ignored, copied or destroyed.
(a) Songs.
(b) Similarities.
(c) Writings.
(d) Differences.

2. What is the pseudonym that Audre Lorde uses when she publishes the story of La Llorona?
(a) Audre Lordis.
(b) Rey Domina.
(c) Anne Lorna.
(d) Richard Alpert.

3. _________, Audre Lorde says, is needed to work toward change, though it does not need to include violence.
(a) War.
(b) Movement.
(c) Militancy.
(d) Anger.

4. Audre Lorde had to learn ____________ at young age because her mother expected her to know what she was thinking.
(a) Nonverbal communication.
(b) Sign language.
(c) English.
(d) Spanish.

5. _________ feminists have not taken the time to learn more about black feminists, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Most.
(d) Radical.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the story of La Llorona, the mother ___________ in retaliation for her husband's infidelity, as well as doing the same to his mother.

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

4. Where was Audre Lorde when she had the intense experience with the beauty of the land at the age of nineteen?

5. Black women, according to Audre Lorde, seem to absorb the __________ of society from a young age.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 criticize when it comes to her placement on the panel at the Second Sex Conference?

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

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

7. What is one of the most often unrecognized differences, according to Audre Lorde, between white and black women?

8. For what book was the conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich written out for?

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

10. What is the most important gift, Audre Lorde says, that she has given her children as a mother?

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