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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 such a commonplace feeling for black women that Audre Lorde herself sees no reason not to inflict it upon another.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Joy.
(d) Pain.

2. Audre Lorde believes that differences should be celebrated among women, not just _____________.
(a) Heard.
(b) Written down.
(c) Discussed.
(d) Tolerated.

3. The conference at which Audre Lorde is talking discusses specifically the women who have a problem with the __________ of black women.
(a) Movement.
(b) Differences.
(c) Troubles.
(d) Anger.

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

5. Audre Lorde thinks it to be wrong to bottle up anger and then later unleash it on a/an _________________.
(a) Friend.
(b) Innocent party.
(c) Family member.
(d) Unwitting pet.

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

3. Audre Lorde warns those in the audience that they should stay away from __________ the past and instead try to learn from it.

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

5. _________ is a tool which can be used constructively during a moment of frustration, according to Audre Lorde.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Audre Lorde use a pseudonym when she wrote the story about La Lllorona?

2. What does Audre Lorde criticize when it comes to her placement on the panel at the Second Sex Conference?

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

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

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

6. What does Audre Lorde feel makes guilt useless in society and in the fight for rights, according to this essay?

7. What happens, according to Audre Lorde, when it comes to the differences between people?

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

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

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

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