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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 sees poetry as the formation of ______________, rather than helping to express what's already there.
(a) Truths.
(b) Femininity.
(c) Progress.
(d) Ideas.

2. 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) Fascism.
(d) Truth.

3. The acceptance of one's feelings can lead to _____________, thus poetry can help those who are or who feel oppressed.
(a) Honor.
(b) Empowerment.
(c) Results.
(d) Community.

4. Audre Lorde discusses the topic of ___________ anger against and toward black females in this section.
(a) White female.
(b) Black male.
(c) White male.
(d) Government.

5. Audre Lorde decided to publish the open letter to Mary Daly after sending it to her and receiving ______________.
(a) No reply.
(b) The book rewritten.
(c) An angry reply.
(d) The letter back, unread.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The dismissal of the black feminist point of view leads Audre Lorde to threaten _________ between or or separation.

3. Mary Daly is the __________ female author of "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism."

4. Audre Lorde had to learn ____________ at young age because her mother expected her to know what she was thinking.

5. Hopes and __________ are transformed into language through poetry, which then can lead to action.

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