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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) Medicine women.
(b) Settlers.
(c) Co-wives.
(d) Goddesses.

2. Even if Audre Lorde was punished or misunderstood for _________, she notes that she regrets only those times when she was silent.
(a) Writing.
(b) Crying.
(c) Singing.
(d) Speaking.

3. 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.

4. In dreams that Audre Lorde has after her trip to Russia, she begins to believe that Russia became a mythic representation of that ___________ does not yet exist anywhere she has been.
(a) Socialism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Truth.
(d) Fascism.

5. Audre Lorde defines the erotic as both spiritual and ___________ and as a source of power in the world.
(a) Heterosexual.
(b) Male.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Female.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Black men seem to view black women as threatening if they become __________, according to Audre Lorde.

4. What imagery does Audre Lorde question in Mary Daly's book as she perceives it to be filled with white examples?

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

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