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

2. Audre Lorde challenges the people at the panel to look at their lives as she looked at her possible _______________.
(a) Poems.
(b) Surgeries.
(c) Life experiences.
(d) Cancer treatment.

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

4. Audre Lorde describes a black woman who once said that ____________ would lead to the extinction of the race as a whole.
(a) Homophobia.
(b) Racism.
(c) Facism.
(d) Lesbianism.

5. 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?
(a) Michael Moorhead.
(b) Robert Smith.
(c) Jackson Smith.
(d) Robert Staples.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Audre Lorde defines the erotic as both spiritual and ___________ and as a source of power in the world.

3. Audre Lorde makes a trip to be an observer at the Union of Soviet Writers' African-Asian Writers Conference in __________.

4. What is the name of the translator that Audre Lorde brings along with her in her travels in Russia?

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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