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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through An Open Letter to Mary Daly.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.
(a) Democracy.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde challenges the people at the panel to look at their lives as she looked at her possible _______________.

2. American society, according to Audre Lorde, defines human __________ in a limited way, without concern for the emotions.

3. Whose murder does Audre Lorde bring up in order to show the senselessness of misdirection?

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

5. Audre Lorde sees that black men encourage black women to identify themselves in terms of their ___________ to their black male partners.

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