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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ feminists have not taken the time to learn more about black feminists, according to Audre Lorde.

2. Some white women, according to Audre Lorde, restrict themselves to the __________ community and this angers Lorde.

3. Where was Audre Lorde when she had the intense experience with the beauty of the land at the age of nineteen?

4. ________ is such a commonplace feeling for black women that Audre Lorde herself sees no reason not to inflict it upon another.

5. Audre Lorde thinks it to be wrong to bottle up anger and then later unleash it on a/an _________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Audre Lorde feel can lead to greater unity within a group, whether they are oppressed or not?

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

3. How does Audre Lorde describe two of her poems "Poetry is Not a Luxury" and "Uses of the Erotic"?

4. What is the mistake of the 1960s that Audre Lorde feels society and future movements need to learn from?

5. What does Audre Lorde believe to be a potentially useful force when it comes to racism and fighting against it?

6. What does Audre Lorde believe needs to happen in order for prejudice and oppression to be transcended?

7. What does Audre Lorde feel makes guilt useless in society and in the fight for rights, according to this essay?

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

9. What does Audre Lorde say that all black women have inside of them, something she has spent her life trying to express?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lorde begins to see that black men believe that black women are problematic when they speak up for their rights and desires.

Part 1: Do you think that Lorde responded to Staples' article in a productive manner?

Part 2: Why do you think that black women are being seen as a threat in the world, according to Lorde's observations?

Part 3: How do you think that power could be balanced between men and women? Is it possible?

Essay Topic 2

Audre Lorde defines four words which signal the human blindness she sees. They are racism, sexism, heterosexism, and homophobia.

Part 1: Do you think that Lorde is missing any other forms of human blindness?

Part 2: How do you think your life is affected by these forms of human blindness?

Part 3: Why do you think the Lorde singles out these forms of blindness? What blindness might she be showing in the list she has created?

Essay Topic 3

Lorde used to teach a class of white students about racism, but then realized she wanted to teach black students again.

Part 1: Why do you think that Lorde wanted to teach black students again?

Part 2: How do you think the white students benefited from having a black teacher?

Part 3: Do you think it's better to have a white or a black teacher teaching a class on racism? Why?

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