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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. Who greets Audre Lorde at the airport when she travels to Tashket, a city which reminds her of Ghana?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) A priest.
(c) Children.
(d) Her publisher.

2. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.
(a) Poetry.
(b) Book.
(c) Art.
(d) Pornography.

3. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.
(a) Creativity.
(b) Inspiration.
(c) Power.
(d) Courage.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Black men seem to view black women as threatening if they become __________, according to Audre Lorde.

3. This section encompasses a talk which Audre Lorde gave during a "Lesbian and _________ Panel" in 1977.

4. What caused Audre Lorde to examine herself more closely, as she reveals in her talk on the panel?

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

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