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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Audre Lorde when she had the intense experience with the beauty of the land at the age of nineteen?
(a) Grenada.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) Mexico.
(d) New Mexico.

2. Audre Lorde says that she has spent her life learning to express her own ________ rather than trying to suppress it.
(a) Anger.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Power.

3. What is the name of Audre Lorde's son who is featured within this section of the book?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Michael.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Terrence.

4. What does Audre Lorde feel can be achieved when people begin to recognize the differences in each other?
(a) Peace.
(b) Commitment.
(c) True unity.
(d) Honor.

5. In what state is Audre Lorde invited to become a poet-in-residence as well as a teacher for students?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Mississippi.

6. Outsiders are like ___________ within a society which is based on profits, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Echoes.
(b) Waste.
(c) Surplus people.
(d) Children.

7. Rich asks Audre Lorde why she calls two of her poems ___________ when she speaks of them.
(a) Disappointments.
(b) Travesties.
(c) Lies.
(d) Progressions.

8. Society would prefer that _________ be the woman's only route to social fulfillment.
(a) Marriage.
(b) Reading.
(c) Maternity.
(d) Teaching.

9. Where was Audre Lorde when she learned that Martin Luther King had been killed?
(a) Carnegie Hall.
(b) Church.
(c) Home.
(d) On a walk through town.

10. What is NOT one of the idea patterns which Audre Lorde says will harm the feminist movement?
(a) Ageism.
(b) Classism.
(c) Racism.
(d) Capitalism.

11. The idea of a __________ is a tool which actively serves to separate the young from the old, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Class system.
(b) Glass ceiling.
(c) Generation gap.
(d) Time warp.

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

13. Bonding between ___________ is seen as threatening to those in patriarchal society, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Men.

14. Audre Lorde admits that she can only deal with her ___________ and that she will try not to make generalizations.
(a) Logic.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Truths.
(d) Own experience.

15. What is the term that Audre Lorde feels is being used in the black community in a derogatory way for a self-identified, independent woman?
(a) Mistress.
(b) Lesbian.
(c) Mama.
(d) Lorde.

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change, according to Audre Lorde.

2. Audre Lorde does point out that sons of lesbians have the advantage of having seen their mothers' blueprints for ____________.

3. There is a long history of support and the _________ of power within the black female community, according to Audre Lorde.

4. Another byproduct of society, according to Audre Lorde, is that he burden of explanation is put on ______________.

5. Malcolm X got closer to understanding the complexities of ____________ than any other person that Audre Lorde observed.

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