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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. Audre Lorde makes a trip to be an observer at the Union of Soviet Writers' African-Asian Writers Conference in __________.
(a) 1978.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1977.

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

3. Audre Lorde accuses the author of the article of attacking the black feminists under the guise of trying to __________ with them.
(a) Work.
(b) Make peace.
(c) Understand their concerns.
(d) Open a dialogue.

4. The erotic is dangerous as once satisfaction is experienced, it is much harder for a person _____________.
(a) To forget.
(b) To settle for less.
(c) To look for more.
(d) To find more.

5. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?
(a) Unwillingness to learn.
(b) Racism.
(c) Reverse snobbery.
(d) Choosing to play dumb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the forms of human blindness which Audre Lorde seeks to define in this section?

2. Who is the author of the essay to which Audre Lorde decides to respond, as it was published in the same journal earlier in the year?

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

4. While erotic is about feeling, according to Audre Lorde, __________ is devoid of feeling and about sensation only.

5. The acceptance of one's feelings can lead to _____________, thus poetry can help those who are or who feel oppressed.

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