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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. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.
(a) Power.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Life.
(d) Masculinity.

2. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is more necessary to the human condition than a ____________ activity.
(a) Leisure.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Government.
(d) Community.

3. At a _________ state college, women tried to come together to support each other, only to be met with violence and shunned by their male peers.
(a) Vermont.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Michigan.
(d) New York.

4. Black men seem to view black women as threatening if they become __________, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Powerful.
(b) Financially successful.
(c) Weaker.
(d) Insubordinate.

5. Audre Lorde sees the Soviet Union as placing its___________ at the core of its programs, at least officially.
(a) Natural resources.
(b) Talents.
(c) People.
(d) Pride.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Audre Lorde sees ____________ as a group that is very visible as 'different' but also invisible as second class citizens.

3. Even if Audre Lorde was punished or misunderstood for _________, she notes that she regrets only those times when she was silent.

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.

5. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?

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