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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.

2. Audre Lorde accuses the author of the article of attacking the black feminists under the guise of trying to __________ with them.

3. Audre Lorde begins to believe that important issues are better to be ___________ than to go unexpressed in the world.

4. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.

5. Audre Lorde describes a black woman who once said that ____________ would lead to the extinction of the race as a whole.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Audre Lorde make the trip to Russia as she describes it at the start of the book?

2. What is the complaint that Helen tells Audre Lorde about the Russian working class, although Lorde disagrees?

3. What does Audre Lorde suggest that Mary Daly has completely dismissed in her book when she reviews it?

4. What are the two ways, according to Audre Lorde, in which the erotic can serve a person?

5. What happens to hopes and to dreams when they are put into language in poetry, according to Audre Lorde?

6. What are some of the physical observations that Audre Lorde makes about the city of Moscow?

7. To what does Audre Lorde attribute the intense distrust between black women in her society?

8. What does Audre Lorde say that life experience gives to her in relation to her expression?

9. What does Audre Lorde says is a symptom of white male-centric thought processes?

10. What is the difference between pornography and erotic, according to Audre Lorde in this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lorde believes that people need to have groups in which they can be supported as this will help them to be more understanding as a whole.

Part 1: Why do you think that people need or do not need other people?

Part 2: What happens when a group or a person doesn't have any sort of support in their life?

Part 3: How do you think your life might be different if you didn't have any support from others?

Essay Topic 2

Lorde's breast tumor surgery causes her to look more closely at herself and her work.

Part 1: Do you think the medical surgeries cause self-reflection?

Part 2: Why do you think the the breast surgery had an impact on Lorde?

Part 3: How do you think you might change if you were to have a difficult or a dangerous surgery?

Essay Topic 3

Anger is the primary response that Lorde has in response to racism, she admits.

Part 1: Why do you think that anger is the main response that Lorde has to the impact of racism?

Part 2: Do you think that anger can be a positive emotional response?

Part 3: How do you think you might respond if you were constantly put down and told that you weren't as good a person as anyone else?

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