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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. Audre Lorde challenges the people at the panel to look at their lives as she looked at her possible _______________.
(a) Surgeries.
(b) Poems.
(c) Cancer treatment.
(d) Life experiences.

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

3. This section encompasses a talk which Audre Lorde gave during a "Lesbian and _________ Panel" in 1977.
(a) Poetry.
(b) Movement.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Literature.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ can create an illusion of protection from those who might wish one harm, according to Audre Lorde.

2. Audre Lorde begins to believe that important issues are better to be ___________ than to go unexpressed in the world.

3. Expression through poetry leads to new ideas that are more easily formed on the ___________ level of poems.

4. Audre Lorde sees ____________ as a group that is very visible as 'different' but also invisible as second class citizens.

5. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.

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