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

2. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.
(a) Mortality.
(b) Logic.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Effectiveness.

3. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.
(a) Masculinity.
(b) Power.
(c) Life.
(d) Poetry.

4. Instead of World War II, what do the Russians call this war, according to the findings of Audre Lorde?
(a) The World War III.
(b) Great Patriotic War.
(c) The Good War.
(d) The Bad War.

5. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.
(a) Negro policy.
(b) Women writers.
(c) American blacks.
(d) Black lesbians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?

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

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

4. What is NOT one of the ills of life which poetry serves to cure, acting as an antidote to these ills, according to Audre Lorde?

5. Audre Lorde believe the forms of human blindness can be remedied through the realization that ___________ can be enriching.

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