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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. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.
(a) American blacks.
(b) Negro policy.
(c) Women writers.
(d) Black lesbians.

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

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

4. Poetry is equivalent to _________ rather than to thinking, according to Audre Lorde, and is more essential than thesis-based writing.
(a) Being.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Shouting.
(d) Singing.

5. The _______ that the black men manifest toward black women would, according to Audre Lorde, be more effective as a force for greater change.
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Humor.
(c) Rage.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Even if Audre Lorde was punished or misunderstood for _________, she notes that she regrets only those times when she was silent.

5. The piece that Audre Lorde writes to Mary Daly was written after the murder of _______ black women in the Boston area.

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