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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 meets a women with whom she identifies strongly, at the ___________ Collective.
(a) Moscow.
(b) Leningrad.
(c) Womens.
(d) Stalingrad.

2. Even if Audre Lorde was punished or misunderstood for _________, she notes that she regrets only those times when she was silent.
(a) Speaking.
(b) Singing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Crying.

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

4. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.
(a) Masculinity.
(b) Life.
(c) Power.
(d) Poetry.

5. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.
(a) Boredom.
(b) Separation.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Conflict.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hopes and __________ are transformed into language through poetry, which then can lead to action.

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

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

4. 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?

5. Poetry is equivalent to _________ rather than to thinking, according to Audre Lorde, and is more essential than thesis-based writing.

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