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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. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.
(a) White.
(b) Male.
(c) Female.
(d) Black.

2. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic has the capacity to remind Lorde of the human capacity for __________ in the world.
(a) Joy.
(b) Honor.
(c) Truth.
(d) Connection.

3. Women are not to ignore the power of the erotic in the service of ________, when this power can be psychically milked from them.
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) The government.
(d) God.

4. Audre Lorde accuses the author of the article of attacking the black feminists under the guise of trying to __________ with them.
(a) Open a dialogue.
(b) Understand their concerns.
(c) Work.
(d) Make peace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Black __________ are even more threatening, according to Audre Lorde, since they do not fit into a _____________.

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

4. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic is summed up by her own phrase, "It _____________."

5. At a _________ state college, women tried to come together to support each other, only to be met with violence and shunned by their male peers.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to hopes and to dreams when they are put into language in poetry, according to Audre Lorde?

2. What is the complaint that Helen tells Audre Lorde about the Russian working class, although Lorde disagrees?

3. Where did Audre Lorde give the speech "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action"?

4. What happened at a New York state college, according to Audre Lorde, when talking about the barriers to women?

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

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

7. What is the difference between pornography and erotic, according to Audre Lorde in this chapter?

8. What leads to better decision making, in Audre Lorde's opinion, which becomes a source of power?

9. What is the state of Uzbekistan's official position, with which Audre Lorde credits the area for its tolerance?

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

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