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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes there are no new _________ still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as humans.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Men.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Books.

2. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?
(a) Reverse snobbery.
(b) Choosing to play dumb.
(c) Unwillingness to learn.
(d) Racism.

3. What is NOT one of the ills of life which poetry serves to cure, acting as an antidote to these ills, according to Audre Lorde?
(a) Unhealthy focus on profit.
(b) Linear power.
(c) Institutional dehumanization.
(d) Environmental destruction.

4. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is able to express ____________ , which are then a direct link back to the ancient society.
(a) Feelings.
(b) Questions.
(c) Love qualities.
(d) Truths.

5. Hopes and __________ are transformed into language through poetry, which then can lead to action.
(a) Loves.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Thrills.
(d) Aspirations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde characterizes the people in Uzbekistan as being __________ as she moves through the countryside.

2. Expression through poetry leads to new ideas that are more easily formed on the ___________ level of poems.

3. At a _________ state college, women tried to come together to support each other, only to be met with violence and shunned by their male peers.

4. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.

5. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.

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