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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. Black females, according to Audre Lorde, have become a primary target for _________ whose cause is external to the black community.
(a) Confusion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Fear.

2. Audre Lorde challenges the people at the panel to look at their lives as she looked at her possible _______________.
(a) Life experiences.
(b) Surgeries.
(c) Poems.
(d) Cancer treatment.

3. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.
(a) American blacks.
(b) Women writers.
(c) Black lesbians.
(d) Negro policy.

4. The title of the article to which Audre Lorde decides to respond is, "The Myth of ___________: A Response to Angry Black Feminists."
(a) Black Macho.
(b) Black Men.
(c) Black Anger.
(d) Black Disconnect.

5. American society, according to Audre Lorde, defines human __________ in a limited way, without concern for the emotions.
(a) Truth.
(b) Thought.
(c) Need.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.

2. Audre Lorde wants to point out that one ________________ does not justify another and the other author's method of expressing this was misguided.

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

4. Poetry is the essence of _______________, according to the feelings of Audre Lorde.

5. Hopes and __________ are transformed into language through poetry, which then can lead to action.

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