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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. Rich asks Audre Lorde why she calls two of her poems ___________ when she speaks of them.
(a) Progressions.
(b) Lies.
(c) Travesties.
(d) Disappointments.

2. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic is summed up by her own phrase, "It _____________."
(a) Feels right to me.
(b) Feels good in my heart.
(c) Looks right to me.
(d) Feels right to my partners.

3. In what state is Audre Lorde invited to become a poet-in-residence as well as a teacher for students?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Georgia.

4. Erotic provides the ___________ of sharing an experience with another, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Truth.
(b) Belief.
(c) Power.
(d) Connection.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.

3. Audre Lorde sees poetry as the formation of ______________, rather than helping to express what's already there.

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

5. The interview between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich was first published in _________ before being included in a book.

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