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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through An Interview: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic is summed up by her own phrase, "It _____________."
(a) Feels good in my heart.
(b) Feels right to me.
(c) Feels right to my partners.
(d) Looks right to me.

3. What is the pseudonym that Audre Lorde uses when she publishes the story of La Llorona?
(a) Richard Alpert.
(b) Anne Lorna.
(c) Audre Lordis.
(d) Rey Domina.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The dismissal of other points of view, according to Audre Lorde, act as barriers to _____________ as other forms of racism do too.

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

3. Audre Lorde decided to publish the open letter to Mary Daly after sending it to her and receiving ______________.

4. In the story of La Llorona, the mother ___________ in retaliation for her husband's infidelity, as well as doing the same to his mother.

5. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic has the capacity to remind Lorde of the human capacity for __________ in the world.

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