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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.
(a) Women writers.
(b) Negro policy.
(c) American blacks.
(d) Black lesbians.

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

3. Black __________ are even more threatening, according to Audre Lorde, since they do not fit into a _____________.
(a) School pattern.
(b) Census.
(c) Society.
(d) Model.

4. Expression through poetry leads to new ideas that are more easily formed on the ___________ level of poems.
(a) Ethical.
(b) Rational.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Logical.

5. Who greets Audre Lorde at the airport when she travels to Tashket, a city which reminds her of Ghana?
(a) Children.
(b) Adrienne Rich.
(c) A priest.
(d) Her publisher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde points out that productivity in Russia is measured by ___________ and not by money as it is in other areas.

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

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

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

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

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