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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. This section encompasses a talk which Audre Lorde gave during a "Lesbian and _________ Panel" in 1977.
(a) Poetry.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Movement.
(d) Literature.

2. What is NOT one of the forms of human blindness which Audre Lorde seeks to define in this section?
(a) Racism.
(b) Intellectual snobbery.
(c) Homophobia.
(d) Sexism.

3. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.
(a) Effectiveness.
(b) Logic.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Mortality.

4. Horizontal ______ can be a useful tool for those who wish to oppress a given group, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Homophobia.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Sexism.
(d) Racism.

5. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.
(a) Boredom.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Separation.
(d) Conflict.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What caused Audre Lorde to examine herself more closely, as she reveals in her talk on the panel?

3. 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.

4. One of the reasons which Audre Lorde believes leads to silence in one's life is ______________.

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

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