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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. Black females, according to Audre Lorde, have become a primary target for _________ whose cause is external to the black community.
(a) Fear.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Anger.

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

3. Whose murder does Audre Lorde bring up in order to show the senselessness of misdirection?
(a) Patricia Cowan.
(b) Adrienne Rich.
(c) Judy Barry.
(d) Constance Stamos.

4. Who does Audre Lorde feel was left out of the book which Mary Daly has written?
(a) Black women.
(b) White women.
(c) Modern women.
(d) Lesbian women.

5. Audre Lorde believes the article was simply a show of the proof that the black male community sees black women as a ________ rather than allies.
(a) Terror.
(b) Threat.
(c) Distraction.
(d) Annoyance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Expression through poetry leads to new ideas that are more easily formed on the ___________ level of poems.

2. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?

3. What caused Audre Lorde to examine herself more closely, as she reveals in her talk on the panel?

4. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.

5. Audre Lorde accuses Mary Daly of completely dismissing the influence of ____________ in history.

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