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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde sees the Soviet Union as placing its___________ at the core of its programs, at least officially.
(a) Natural resources.
(b) People.
(c) Talents.
(d) Pride.

2. Audre Lorde wants to point out that one ________________ does not justify another and the other author's method of expressing this was misguided.
(a) Shout in anger.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Method of persecution.
(d) Lie.

3. Instead of World War II, what do the Russians call this war, according to the findings of Audre Lorde?
(a) The Bad War.
(b) The Good War.
(c) The World War III.
(d) Great Patriotic War.

4. Women are frequently taught that the erotic is only of use within the realm of __________.
(a) Sex.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Power battles.
(d) Pregnancy.

5. One of the reasons which Audre Lorde believes leads to silence in one's life is ______________.
(a) Femininity.
(b) Poor community support.
(c) Poor writing.
(d) Discrimination.

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ can create an illusion of protection from those who might wish one harm, according to Audre Lorde.

2. Efik Ebibio is married to a man, but actively speaks of a ___________ relationship with another married woman.

3. 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?

4. Black __________ are even more threatening, according to Audre Lorde, since they do not fit into a _____________.

5. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.

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