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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. Even if Audre Lorde was punished or misunderstood for _________, she notes that she regrets only those times when she was silent.
(a) Speaking.
(b) Singing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Crying.

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

3. Audre Lorde challenges the people at the panel to look at their lives as she looked at her possible _______________.
(a) Cancer treatment.
(b) Poems.
(c) Life experiences.
(d) Surgeries.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ allows injustices to go unheard and fears to remain powerful, according to Audre Lorde in her talk.

2. Poetry is the essence of _______________, according to the feelings of Audre Lorde.

3. 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.

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

5. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is able to express ____________ , which are then a direct link back to the ancient society.

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