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

2. Audre Lorde sees ____________ as a group that is very visible as 'different' but also invisible as second class citizens.
(a) Black women.
(b) Black children.
(c) Women.
(d) White women.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?

4. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.

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

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