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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. __________ allows injustices to go unheard and fears to remain powerful, according to Audre Lorde in her talk.
(a) Silence.
(b) Book reading.
(c) Mankind.
(d) Society.

2. Poetry is the essence of _______________, according to the feelings of Audre Lorde.
(a) Struggles.
(b) Maidenhood.
(c) Womanhood.
(d) Power.

3. 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?
(a) Institutional dehumanization.
(b) Environmental destruction.
(c) Unhealthy focus on profit.
(d) Linear power.

4. Audre Lorde makes a trip to be an observer at the Union of Soviet Writers' African-Asian Writers Conference in __________.
(a) 1979.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1978.

5. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.
(a) Leisure.
(b) Government.
(c) Community.
(d) Romantic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Poetry is equivalent to _________ rather than to thinking, according to Audre Lorde, and is more essential than thesis-based writing.

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

3. Audre Lorde sees poetry as the formation of ______________, rather than helping to express what's already there.

4. Audre Lorde characterizes the people in Uzbekistan as being __________ as she moves through the countryside.

5. Audre Lorde asks the audience what __________ they might be enduring in silence rather than speaking against them.

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