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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the pseudonym that Audre Lorde uses when she publishes the story of La Llorona?
(a) Audre Lordis.
(b) Richard Alpert.
(c) Rey Domina.
(d) Anne Lorna.

2. ___________ based on anger can only destroy the past and is incapable of helping to build a new future.
(a) Power.
(b) Movements.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Strength.

3. ________ is such a commonplace feeling for black women that Audre Lorde herself sees no reason not to inflict it upon another.
(a) Joy.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Pain.

4. At a recent conference, Audre Lorde was told that ________ over the age of ten were not allowed to come.
(a) Black men.
(b) Boys.
(c) Black women.
(d) Girls.

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

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

7. Audre Lorde thinks it to be wrong to bottle up anger and then later unleash it on a/an _________________.
(a) Unwitting pet.
(b) Friend.
(c) Innocent party.
(d) Family member.

8. Audre Lorde believes that many women would rather group all women into a ___________ than to look at differences.
(a) Movement.
(b) Tribe.
(c) Sisterhood.
(d) Protest.

9. Another byproduct of society, according to Audre Lorde, is that he burden of explanation is put on ______________.
(a) No one.
(b) The men.
(c) The oppressed group.
(d) The outsiders.

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

11. One of the main problems Audre Lorde saw during the 1960s was a perceived need for __________ in the movement.
(a) Truth.
(b) Homogeneity.
(c) Anger.
(d) Quiet.

12. __________, says Audre Lorde, is an ongoing event, as she cites examples which are taking place in the world.
(a) Revolution.
(b) Racism.
(c) Anger.
(d) Chaos.

13. Audre Lorde sees that there is an oppressive _____________ which causes many women to bottle up their anger.
(a) Patriarchy.
(b) Law.
(c) Social construct.
(d) Mindset.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes there are two reactions which are of no help to anyone - ___________ and defensiveness.

2. In the story of La Llorona, the mother ___________ in retaliation for her husband's infidelity, as well as doing the same to his mother.

3. What is the name of Audre Lorde's son who is featured within this section of the book?

4. Black women, according to Audre Lorde, seem to absorb the __________ of society from a young age.

5. Audre Lorde believes that enabling her children to be ___________ with themselves is one of the best gifts she has given them.

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