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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Linear power.
(b) Environmental destruction.
(c) Unhealthy focus on profit.
(d) Institutional dehumanization.

2. By recognizing __________, Audre Lorde believes that it is possible to begin to move past them.
(a) Women's rights.
(b) Prejudices.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Mankind's flaws.

3. The title of the article to which Audre Lorde decides to respond is, "The Myth of ___________: A Response to Angry Black Feminists."
(a) Black Men.
(b) Black Macho.
(c) Black Disconnect.
(d) Black Anger.

4. Mary Daly was trying to overcome the repressive forces of the ______________, according to Audre Lorde's point of view.
(a) Yale.
(b) University of Boston.
(c) The US government.
(d) Harvard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes that differences should be celebrated among women, not just _____________.

2. Women are not to ignore the power of the erotic in the service of ________, when this power can be psychically milked from them.

3. Audre Lorde accuses Daly of simply browsing the works of black women for __________, rather than actually reading them.

4. Audre Lorde sees poetry as the formation of ______________, rather than helping to express what's already there.

5. Who was the person which send the copy of Mary Daly's book to Audre Lorde in order to review it?

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