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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what city does Audre Lorde compare the atmosphere and the weather of Moscow?
(a) London.
(b) Berlin.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

2. Audre Lorde characterizes the people in Uzbekistan as being __________ as she moves through the countryside.
(a) Dull.
(b) Industrious.
(c) Helpful.
(d) Lazy.

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

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

5. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.
(a) Art.
(b) Pornography.
(c) Book.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Misconceptions can lead to the fear that another group's ____________ at securing some of their freedom will take it away from other groups.

3. Women are frequently taught that the erotic is only of use within the realm of __________.

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

5. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the feelings of poetry do in relation to connecting with other times, according to Audre Lorde?

2. What does Audre Lorde say that Mary Daly used the poem on genital mutilation to do within her book?

3. What is the significant event which occurred just a little while after the letter of this section was written?

4. Why did Audre Lorde make the trip to Russia as she describes it at the start of the book?

5. How does Audre Lorde define the idea of erotic and what it means to be erotic in the context of this chapter?

6. What are some of the ills of modern life which Audre Lorde believes poetry can help to cure?

7. What does Audre Lorde say that life experience gives to her in relation to her expression?

8. What are some of the regrets that Audre Lorde sees in her own life as she admits in her speech?

9. What does Staples' article seem to think of black women, according to the way Audre Lorde interprets it?

10. What are some of the physical observations that Audre Lorde makes about the city of Moscow?

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