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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. Women are frequently taught that the erotic is only of use within the realm of __________.
(a) Power battles.
(b) Sex.
(c) Pregnancy.
(d) Marriage.

2. What imagery does Audre Lorde question in Mary Daly's book as she perceives it to be filled with white examples?
(a) Relationship.
(b) Love.
(c) Erotic.
(d) Goddess.

3. The acceptance of one's feelings can lead to _____________, thus poetry can help those who are or who feel oppressed.
(a) Honor.
(b) Empowerment.
(c) Results.
(d) Community.

4. When emotional concerns are ignored, the erotic becomes a simple unpleasant _______________, which takes the passion away.
(a) Picture.
(b) Necessity.
(c) Object.
(d) Act.

5. Audre Lorde sees poetry as the formation of ______________, rather than helping to express what's already there.
(a) Femininity.
(b) Truths.
(c) Progress.
(d) Ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who commissioned the conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich as it happens in this chapter?

2. Audre Lorde sees that black men encourage black women to identify themselves in terms of their ___________ to their black male partners.

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

4. The dismissal of the black feminist point of view leads Audre Lorde to threaten _________ between or or separation.

5. The dismissal of other points of view, according to Audre Lorde, act as barriers to _____________ as other forms of racism do too.

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