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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. _________ feminists have not taken the time to learn more about black feminists, according to Audre Lorde.

2. Audre Lorde had to learn ____________ at young age because her mother expected her to know what she was thinking.

3. White women have the option of identifying themselves with the white patriarchy in order to gain power by _____________.

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

5. Where was Audre Lorde when she learned that Martin Luther King had been killed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Audre Lorde's mother used to do when she could not find a word for the meaning that she wanted to convey?

6. What does Audre Lorde feel that Malcolm X began to grasp in terms of the lingering effects of oppression?

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

8. What kind of time does Audre Lorde believe that black women have been born into, which makes things more difficult?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lorde is focused on seeing the number of black people at the conference in Russia with her, as well as in the cities that she traverses.

Part 1: Why do you think Lorde is so focused on finding others of her race?

Part 2: Do you think that it's racist to focus only on your own race?

Part 3: How do you think Lorde's experience could be shifted by taking the emphasis off of race?

Essay Topic 2

Lorde says that one oppression does not justify the other, even though she feels society is saying this.

Part 1: How does oppression impact the way a society works?

Part 2: Do you think that oppression is rampant in society today?

Part 3: Why do you think that oppression is a concern for Lorde during the time of her writing?

Essay Topic 3

Lorde challenges the way that Daly presents her arguments about women and radical feminism.

Part 1: Why do you think that Lorde seeks to criticize Daly rather than to celebrate the strengths of the book?

Part 2: Do you think the Lorde is being unnecessarily critical of Daly's work?

Part 3: How do you think Lorde could have opened up a dialogue with Daly, rather than to simply write a letter of challenge?

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