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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. What caused Audre Lorde to examine herself more closely, as she reveals in her talk on the panel?
(a) Breast cancer.
(b) A lover breakup.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Benign breast tumor removal.

2. Mary Daly is the __________ female author of "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism."
(a) White.
(b) Married.
(c) Christian.
(d) Black.

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

4. The erotic is a depth of _______________ that women in this society are encouraged to ignore, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Feeling.
(b) Truth.
(c) Commitment.
(d) Power.

5. What is the name of the translator that Audre Lorde brings along with her in her travels in Russia?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Margot.
(c) Athena.
(d) Helen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.

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

4. When emotional concerns are ignored, the erotic becomes a simple unpleasant _______________, which takes the passion away.

5. 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?

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