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

2. Audre Lorde just wants her son to grow up to be who ____________, not to be just like her.

3. Audre Lorde's experience with beauty, she says, helped her to release her __________ into the world.

4. What is NOT one of the viewpoints which is being discussed on the panel which Audre Lorde is on?

5. Audre Lorde believes that there is a trend in America in which radical ________ is attempted by using the same tools.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Audre Lorde point out to be used as a derogatory term in the black community for a self-identified and independent woman?

5. What are the three terms which Audre Lorde seeks to differentiate within this essay?

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

7. What is the mistake of the 1960s that Audre Lorde feels society and future movements need to learn from?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lorde used to teach a class of white students about racism, but then realized she wanted to teach black students again.

Part 1: Why do you think that Lorde wanted to teach black students again?

Part 2: How do you think the white students benefited from having a black teacher?

Part 3: Do you think it's better to have a white or a black teacher teaching a class on racism? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The word 'erotic' brings up a lot of different ideas for those who hear it or who read it.

Part 1: Why do you think that 'erotic' is such an energetically charged word?

Part 2: How do you think the word 'erotic' has been misused in society and in the world?

Part 3: Do you believe that something can be erotic without being sexual in nature?

Essay Topic 3

Audre Lorde defines four words which signal the human blindness she sees. They are racism, sexism, heterosexism, and homophobia.

Part 1: Do you think that Lorde is missing any other forms of human blindness?

Part 2: How do you think your life is affected by these forms of human blindness?

Part 3: Why do you think the Lorde singles out these forms of blindness? What blindness might she be showing in the list she has created?

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