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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde sees that there is an oppressive _____________ which causes many women to bottle up their anger.
(a) Mindset.
(b) Law.
(c) Patriarchy.
(d) Social construct.

2. Audre Lorde admits that she can only deal with her ___________ and that she will try not to make generalizations.
(a) Own experience.
(b) Logic.
(c) Truths.
(d) Poetry.

3. The conference at which Audre Lorde is talking discusses specifically the women who have a problem with the __________ of black women.
(a) Anger.
(b) Differences.
(c) Movement.
(d) Troubles.

4. ___________ is the fury of those who do not share our goals and its object is death and destruction.
(a) Hatred.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Anger.

5. Audre Lorde feels that her son will have to forge his own ___________ without a clear model or someone to rebel against.
(a) Path.
(b) Identity.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Rules.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde's primary reaction to __________ is anger and she feels it is an appropriate response to this problem.

2. Horizontal ______ can be a useful tool for those who wish to oppress a given group, according to Audre Lorde.

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

4. Instead of telling her son to fight the bullies, Audre Lorde tells her son about how she __________________.

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

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