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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. Audre Lorde believes that there is a trend in America in which radical ________ is attempted by using the same tools.
(a) Work.
(b) Writing.
(c) Truth.
(d) Change.

2. Audre Lorde asks the audience what __________ they might be enduring in silence rather than speaking against them.
(a) Lies.
(b) Laws.
(c) Injustices.
(d) Powers.

3. __________ allows injustices to go unheard and fears to remain powerful, according to Audre Lorde in her talk.
(a) Society.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Book reading.
(d) Silence.

4. 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.

5. One of the reasons which Audre Lorde believes leads to silence in one's life is ______________.
(a) Poor writing.
(b) Femininity.
(c) Poor community support.
(d) Discrimination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Efik Ebibio is married to a man, but actively speaks of a ___________ relationship with another married woman.

2. Audre Lorde's experience with beauty, she says, helped her to release her __________ into the world.

3. Who commissioned the conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich as it happens in this chapter?

4. To Audre Lorde, the power of the erotic has the capacity to remind Lorde of the human capacity for __________ in the world.

5. Audre Lorde believes there are no new _________ still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as humans.

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