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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Audre Lorde meets a women with whom she identifies strongly, at the ___________ Collective.
(a) Stalingrad.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Womens.
(d) Leningrad.

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

4. Efik Ebibio is married to a man, but actively speaks of a ___________ relationship with another married woman.
(a) Marriage.
(b) Professional.
(c) Friend.
(d) Lesbian.

5. What is the name of the translator that Audre Lorde brings along with her in her travels in Russia?
(a) Athena.
(b) Juliet.
(c) Helen.
(d) Margot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde makes a trip to be an observer at the Union of Soviet Writers' African-Asian Writers Conference in __________.

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

3. When emotional concerns are ignored, the erotic becomes a simple unpleasant _______________, which takes the passion away.

4. Audre Lorde points out that productivity in Russia is measured by ___________ and not by money as it is in other areas.

5. Audre Lorde sees the Soviet Union as placing its___________ at the core of its programs, at least officially.

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