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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde begins to believe that important issues are better to be ___________ than to go unexpressed in the world.
(a) Discussed.
(b) Honored.
(c) Shouted.
(d) Proven.

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

3. Mary Daly is the __________ female author of "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism."
(a) Christian.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Married.

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

5. Erotic provides the ___________ of sharing an experience with another, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Belief.
(b) Connection.
(c) Power.
(d) Truth.

6. Whose murder does Audre Lorde bring up in order to show the senselessness of misdirection?
(a) Judy Barry.
(b) Constance Stamos.
(c) Patricia Cowan.
(d) Adrienne Rich.

7. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.
(a) Effectiveness.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Mortality.
(d) Logic.

8. Audre Lorde describes a black woman who once said that ____________ would lead to the extinction of the race as a whole.
(a) Homophobia.
(b) Lesbianism.
(c) Facism.
(d) Racism.

9. The dismissal of other points of view, according to Audre Lorde, act as barriers to _____________ as other forms of racism do too.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Power.
(c) Truth.
(d) Peace.

10. Audre Lorde makes a trip to be an observer at the Union of Soviet Writers' African-Asian Writers Conference in __________.
(a) 1979.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1978.

11. Poetry is the essence of _______________, according to the feelings of Audre Lorde.
(a) Struggles.
(b) Maidenhood.
(c) Womanhood.
(d) Power.

12. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.
(a) Government.
(b) Community.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Leisure.

13. Audre Lorde sees poetry as the formation of ______________, rather than helping to express what's already there.
(a) Femininity.
(b) Progress.
(c) Truths.
(d) Ideas.

14. At a _________ state college, women tried to come together to support each other, only to be met with violence and shunned by their male peers.
(a) Michigan.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Illinois.
(d) New York.

15. The dismissal of the black feminist point of view leads Audre Lorde to threaten _________ between or or separation.
(a) Anger.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Distrust.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of using her _________ to legitimize her writing in the eyes of black women readers.

2. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.

3. Audre Lorde decided to publish the open letter to Mary Daly after sending it to her and receiving ______________.

4. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.

5. Who greets Audre Lorde at the airport when she travels to Tashket, a city which reminds her of Ghana?

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