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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through An Interview: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Institutional dehumanization.
(b) Unhealthy focus on profit.
(c) Linear power.
(d) Environmental destruction.

2. Audre Lorde's experience with beauty, she says, helped her to release her __________ into the world.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Creativity.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

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

4. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.
(a) Book.
(b) Art.
(c) Pornography.
(d) Poetry.

5. The dismissal of other points of view, according to Audre Lorde, act as barriers to _____________ as other forms of racism do too.
(a) Power.
(b) Truth.
(c) Peace.
(d) Understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde admits that she does not always know the meaning of her ___________ when she creates them.

2. The erotic is a depth of _______________ that women in this society are encouraged to ignore, according to Audre Lorde.

3. Rich asks Audre Lorde why she calls two of her poems ___________ when she speaks of them.

4. Hopes and __________ are transformed into language through poetry, which then can lead to action.

5. Misconceptions can lead to the fear that another group's ____________ at securing some of their freedom will take it away from other groups.

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