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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde asks the audience what __________ they might be enduring in silence rather than speaking against them.
(a) Powers.
(b) Lies.
(c) Injustices.
(d) Laws.

2. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of using her _________ to legitimize her writing in the eyes of black women readers.
(a) Words.
(b) Review.
(c) Picture.
(d) Ideas.

3. What is NOT one of the forms of human blindness which Audre Lorde seeks to define in this section?
(a) Sexism.
(b) Intellectual snobbery.
(c) Racism.
(d) Homophobia.

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

5. The piece that Audre Lorde writes to Mary Daly was written after the murder of _______ black women in the Boston area.
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what city does Audre Lorde compare the atmosphere and the weather of Moscow?

3. ____________ can create an illusion of protection from those who might wish one harm, according to Audre Lorde.

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

5. __________ allows injustices to go unheard and fears to remain powerful, according to Audre Lorde in her talk.

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Audre Lorde give the speech "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action"?

2. What are the two ways, according to Audre Lorde, in which the erotic can serve a person?

3. What leads to better decision making, in Audre Lorde's opinion, which becomes a source of power?

4. What are some of the regrets that Audre Lorde sees in her own life as she admits in her speech?

5. What does Staples' article seem to think of black women, according to the way Audre Lorde interprets it?

6. What is the significant event which occurred just a little while after the letter of this section was written?

7. To what does Audre Lorde attribute the intense distrust between black women in her society?

8. What do the feelings of poetry do in relation to connecting with other times, according to Audre Lorde?

9. Why does Audre Lorde include the example of Patricia Cowan's murder in her essay response?

10. What happened at a New York state college, according to Audre Lorde, when talking about the barriers to women?

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