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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 admits that she does not always know the meaning of her ___________ when she creates them.
(a) Tests.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Writings.

2. Audre Lorde believes that enabling her children to be ___________ with themselves is one of the best gifts she has given them.
(a) Sad.
(b) Happy.
(c) Content.
(d) Honest.

3. As a child, Audre Lorde began to wonder if _______ meant bad, according to her essay.
(a) White.
(b) Woman.
(c) Man.
(d) Black.

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

5. The _________ of black women seem to be the only people who seem to understand and accept them for who they are.
(a) Husbands.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Fathers.
(d) Mothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Audre Lorde feel can be achieved when people begin to recognize the differences in each other?

2. Who commissioned the conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich as it happens in this chapter?

3. The interview between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich was first published in _________ before being included in a book.

4. What is NOT one of the idea patterns which Audre Lorde says will harm the feminist movement?

5. __________ is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change, according to Audre Lorde.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Audre Lorde believe it is important to discuss difference in the lives of women?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Audre Lorde feel can lead to greater unity within a group, whether they are oppressed or not?

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

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

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