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

2. In the story of La Llorona, the mother ___________ in retaliation for her husband's infidelity, as well as doing the same to his mother.
(a) Murders her husband's father.
(b) Drowns her own children.
(c) Kills herself.
(d) Murders her sister.

3. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic has the capacity to remind Lorde of the human capacity for __________ in the world.
(a) Truth.
(b) Connection.
(c) Joy.
(d) Honor.

4. Audre Lorde describes a black woman who once said that ____________ would lead to the extinction of the race as a whole.
(a) Racism.
(b) Facism.
(c) Homophobia.
(d) Lesbianism.

5. American society, according to Audre Lorde, defines human __________ in a limited way, without concern for the emotions.
(a) Power.
(b) Truth.
(c) Thought.
(d) Need.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of simply browsing the works of black women for __________, rather than actually reading them.

2. Audre Lorde's experience with beauty, she says, helped her to release her __________ into the world.

3. Who in Audre Lorde's life used to make up words when they could not come up with the word they needed?

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

5. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic is summed up by her own phrase, "It _____________."

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