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

2. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.
(a) Poetry.
(b) Power.
(c) Life.
(d) Masculinity.

3. What caused Audre Lorde to examine herself more closely, as she reveals in her talk on the panel?
(a) A lover breakup.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Breast cancer.
(d) Benign breast tumor removal.

4. Hopes and __________ are transformed into language through poetry, which then can lead to action.
(a) Aspirations.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Loves.
(d) Thrills.

5. 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) Truth.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Fascism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde sees the Soviet Union as placing its___________ at the core of its programs, at least officially.

2. One of the reasons which Audre Lorde believes leads to silence in one's life is ______________.

3. Audre Lorde sees ____________ as a group that is very visible as 'different' but also invisible as second class citizens.

4. Who greets Audre Lorde at the airport when she travels to Tashket, a city which reminds her of Ghana?

5. Even if Audre Lorde was punished or misunderstood for _________, she notes that she regrets only those times when she was silent.

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