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

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

3. Poetry is equivalent to _________ rather than to thinking, according to Audre Lorde, and is more essential than thesis-based writing.
(a) Singing.
(b) Shouting.
(c) Feeling.
(d) Being.

4. Audre Lorde feels that the erotic can be a tool for ____________ and an energizing force to bring about change.
(a) Government.
(b) Empowerment.
(c) Black communities.
(d) Truth.

5. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.
(a) Power.
(b) Creativity.
(c) Inspiration.
(d) Courage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.

2. Poetry is the essence of _______________, according to the feelings of Audre Lorde.

3. Audre Lorde decided to publish the open letter to Mary Daly after sending it to her and receiving ______________.

4. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic has the capacity to remind Lorde of the human capacity for __________ in the world.

5. Who does Audre Lorde feel was left out of the book which Mary Daly has written?

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