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

2. The acceptance of one's feelings can lead to _____________, thus poetry can help those who are or who feel oppressed.
(a) Results.
(b) Honor.
(c) Empowerment.
(d) Community.

3. Poetry is equivalent to _________ rather than to thinking, according to Audre Lorde, and is more essential than thesis-based writing.
(a) Singing.
(b) Shouting.
(c) Being.
(d) Feeling.

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

5. Who greets Audre Lorde at the airport when she travels to Tashket, a city which reminds her of Ghana?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) A priest.
(c) Her publisher.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. ____________ can create an illusion of protection from those who might wish one harm, according to Audre Lorde.

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

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

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