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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. In the thinking about outsiders, ____________ are considered best either ignored, copied or destroyed.

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

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

4. The _________ of black women seem to be the only people who seem to understand and accept them for who they are.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 criticize when it comes to her placement on the panel at the Second Sex Conference?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Lorde begins to see that black men believe that black women are problematic when they speak up for their rights and desires.

Part 1: Do you think that Lorde responded to Staples' article in a productive manner?

Part 2: Why do you think that black women are being seen as a threat in the world, according to Lorde's observations?

Part 3: How do you think that power could be balanced between men and women? Is it possible?

Essay Topic 3

Lorde finds that poetry communicates answers to difficult questions, as she states in her interview with Adrienne Rich.

Part 1: What do you think about the ability of poetry to communicate answers to difficult questions?

Part 2: How do you react when you read poetry to yourself in your life?

Part 3: Why do you think the poetry is something which speaks to so many people more than other pieces of writing?

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