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

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

3. Audre Lorde meets a women with whom she identifies strongly, at the ___________ Collective.
(a) Womens.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Stalingrad.
(d) Leningrad.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.

3. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.

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

5. What is the name of the translator that Audre Lorde brings along with her in her travels in Russia?

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