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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. The idea of a __________ is a tool which actively serves to separate the young from the old, according to Audre Lorde.

2. Audre Lorde sees that even the very idea that women are coming together against __________ is dangerous.

3. Audre Lorde thinks it to be wrong to bottle up anger and then later unleash it on a/an _________________.

4. What is the term that Audre Lorde feels is being used in the black community in a derogatory way for a self-identified, independent woman?

5. Where was Audre Lorde when she had the intense experience with the beauty of the land at the age of nineteen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Audre Lorde believe to be a potentially useful force when it comes to racism and fighting against it?

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

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

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

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

8. Why might black women might not be able to love each other, according to Audre Lorde?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Audre Lorde is sent to Russia in order to write an essay about the experiences she has during her trip.

Part 1: Do you think that writing about one's experiences makes for interesting reading?

Part 2: How do you think you would approach writing about a trip to a foreign country?

Part 3: Why do you think Lorde was asked to write about her experiences in Russia?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Lorde comments that there are no new ideas waiting for humans to try them out, only old and tired ideas waiting to be explored.

Part 1: Do you believe that the world is out of new ideas? Will the world ever run out of ideas?

Part 2: What is the value of exploring old ideas in the modern times?

Part 3: Why do you think that Lorde believes that there are only old ideas right now?

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