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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. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.
(a) Settlers.
(b) Medicine women.
(c) Co-wives.
(d) Goddesses.

2. Efik Ebibio is married to a man, but actively speaks of a ___________ relationship with another married woman.
(a) Friend.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Professional.
(d) Lesbian.

3. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.
(a) Leisure.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Government.
(d) Community.

4. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.
(a) Effectiveness.
(b) Mortality.
(c) Logic.
(d) Poetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde discusses the topic of ___________ anger against and toward black females in this section.

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?

3. Misconceptions can lead to the fear that another group's ____________ at securing some of their freedom will take it away from other groups.

4. This section encompasses a talk which Audre Lorde gave during a "Lesbian and _________ Panel" in 1977.

5. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic is summed up by her own phrase, "It _____________."

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