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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.
(a) Boredom.
(b) Separation.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Conflict.

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

3. Audre Lorde points out that productivity in Russia is measured by ___________ and not by money as it is in other areas.
(a) Cleanliness.
(b) Power.
(c) Community.
(d) Food.

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

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

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. Expression through poetry leads to new ideas that are more easily formed on the ___________ level of poems.

4. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.

5. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.

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