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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. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.
(a) Black.
(b) Female.
(c) Male.
(d) White.

2. Audre Lorde points out the flaw in thinking that another group freedom of ___________ is to jeopardize one's own freedoms.
(a) Expression.
(b) Honor.
(c) Truth.
(d) Demonstration.

3. Who does Audre Lorde accuse of focusing on the struggles of women as women, rather than as particular kinds of women?
(a) White women.
(b) Black women.
(c) Lesbian women.
(d) Heterosexual women.

4. Audre Lorde truly believes there is an _____________ of the white woman to try to see the struggles of the black woman.
(a) Honesty.
(b) Unwillingness.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Unsung need.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Audre Lorde feel was left out of the book which Mary Daly has written?

2. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.

3. In dreams that Audre Lorde has after her trip to Russia, she begins to believe that Russia became a mythic representation of that ___________ does not yet exist anywhere she has been.

4. The Great American Double Think is a symptom of the __________ thought processes, according to Audre Lorde.

5. Audre Lorde believes the article was simply a show of the proof that the black male community sees black women as a ________ rather than allies.

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