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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. This section's essay was first given to an audience at ___________ College in April of 1980.
(a) Harvard.
(b) Georgetown.
(c) Amherst.
(d) Boston.

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?
(a) Institutional dehumanization.
(b) Environmental destruction.
(c) Unhealthy focus on profit.
(d) Linear power.

3. The erotic is dangerous as once satisfaction is experienced, it is much harder for a person _____________.
(a) To settle for less.
(b) To forget.
(c) To look for more.
(d) To find more.

4. Audre Lorde cites a bias against _________ as one of the examples of how classism can impact society.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Lesbians.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Minimum wage.

5. Audre Lorde characterizes the people in Uzbekistan as being __________ as she moves through the countryside.
(a) Industrious.
(b) Helpful.
(c) Dull.
(d) Lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believe the forms of human blindness can be remedied through the realization that ___________ can be enriching.

2. What does Audre Lorde feel can be achieved when people begin to recognize the differences in each other?

3. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of simply browsing the works of black women for __________, rather than actually reading them.

4. Erotic provides the ___________ of sharing an experience with another, according to Audre Lorde.

5. Audre Lorde begins to believe that important issues are better to be ___________ than to go unexpressed in the world.

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