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

2. Audre Lorde feels that her son will have to forge his own ___________ without a clear model or someone to rebel against.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Rules.
(c) Path.
(d) Identity.

3. Audre Lorde learned from the 1960s that she needed to define ____________ for herself and not let others do this job.
(a) Honor.
(b) Herself.
(c) Truth.
(d) Anger.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde had to learn ____________ at young age because her mother expected her to know what she was thinking.

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

3. Who does Audre Lorde accuse of focusing on the struggles of women as women, rather than as particular kinds of women?

4. The conference at which Audre Lorde is talking discusses specifically the women who have a problem with the __________ of black women.

5. Audre Lorde urges the _________ to look inside themselves in order to begin to create change.

Short Essay Questions

1. For what book was the conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich written out for?

2. Why does Audre Lorde believe it is important to discuss difference in the lives of women?

3. What kind of time does Audre Lorde believe that black women have been born into, which makes things more difficult?

4. What is the unique set of challenges Audre Lorde feels she faces as a black feminist raising a son?

5. What did Audre Lorde's mother used to do when she could not find a word for the meaning that she wanted to convey?

6. What does Audre Lorde feel are the two facets of the American system which are seen by most an inevitable, in this essay?

7. What is one of the most often unrecognized differences, according to Audre Lorde, between white and black women?

8. What happens, according to Audre Lorde, when it comes to the differences between people?

9. What is the most important gift, Audre Lorde says, that she has given her children as a mother?

10. What are the three terms which Audre Lorde seeks to differentiate within this essay?

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