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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) Ideas.
(b) Femininity.
(c) Truths.
(d) Progress.

2. In dreams that Audre Lorde has after her trip to Russia, she begins to believe that Russia became a mythic representation of that ___________ does not yet exist anywhere she has been.
(a) Fascism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Truth.
(d) Socialism.

3. What is NOT one of the forms of human blindness which Audre Lorde seeks to define in this section?
(a) Sexism.
(b) Homophobia.
(c) Racism.
(d) Intellectual snobbery.

4. Audre Lorde begins to believe that important issues are better to be ___________ than to go unexpressed in the world.
(a) Discussed.
(b) Shouted.
(c) Proven.
(d) Honored.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Horizontal ______ can be a useful tool for those who wish to oppress a given group, according to Audre Lorde.

2. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.

3. This section encompasses a talk which Audre Lorde gave during a "Lesbian and _________ Panel" in 1977.

4. Women are frequently taught that the erotic is only of use within the realm of __________.

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

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