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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Learning from the 60s.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Audre Lorde had to learn ____________ at young age because her mother expected her to know what she was thinking.
(a) Nonverbal communication.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Sign language.
(d) English.

3. How old is Audre Lorde's son at the time when she has written this section?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

4. One of the main problems Audre Lorde saw during the 1960s was a perceived need for __________ in the movement.
(a) Quiet.
(b) Anger.
(c) Truth.
(d) Homogeneity.

5. The erotic is a depth of _______________ that women in this society are encouraged to ignore, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Truth.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Commitment.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT one of the ills of life which poetry serves to cure, acting as an antidote to these ills, according to Audre Lorde?

3. The erotic is dangerous as once satisfaction is experienced, it is much harder for a person _____________.

4. Audre Lorde believes that in order to stop oppression and prejudice, new __________ must be created.

5. One of the reasons which Audre Lorde believes leads to silence in one's life is ______________.

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