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

2. Efik Ebibio is married to a man, but actively speaks of a ___________ relationship with another married woman.
(a) Professional.
(b) Lesbian.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Friend.

3. Misconceptions can lead to the fear that another group's ____________ at securing some of their freedom will take it away from other groups.
(a) Success.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Commitment.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Poetry is equivalent to _________ rather than to thinking, according to Audre Lorde, and is more essential than thesis-based writing.

2. Expression through poetry leads to new ideas that are more easily formed on the ___________ level of poems.

3. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.

4. Audre Lorde meets a women with whom she identifies strongly, at the ___________ Collective.

5. Horizontal ______ can be a useful tool for those who wish to oppress a given group, according to Audre Lorde.

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