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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Audre Lorde begins to believe that important issues are better to be ___________ than to go unexpressed in the world.
(a) Discussed.
(b) Honored.
(c) Proven.
(d) Shouted.

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

3. Mary Daly was trying to overcome the repressive forces of the ______________, according to Audre Lorde's point of view.
(a) The US government.
(b) Harvard.
(c) University of Boston.
(d) Yale.

4. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of using her _________ to legitimize her writing in the eyes of black women readers.
(a) Picture.
(b) Review.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Words.

5. Audre Lorde asks the audience what __________ they might be enduring in silence rather than speaking against them.
(a) Powers.
(b) Lies.
(c) Injustices.
(d) Laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. Black men seem to view black women as threatening if they become __________, according to Audre Lorde.

2. Audre Lorde believes that enabling her children to be ___________ with themselves is one of the best gifts she has given them.

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

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

5. Mary Daly is the __________ female author of "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism."

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