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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. Audre Lorde meets a women with whom she identifies strongly, at the ___________ Collective.
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Womens.
(c) Stalingrad.
(d) Moscow.

2. One of the reasons which Audre Lorde believes leads to silence in one's life is ______________.
(a) Femininity.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Poor community support.
(d) Poor writing.

3. Audre Lorde begins to believe that important issues are better to be ___________ than to go unexpressed in the world.
(a) Shouted.
(b) Discussed.
(c) Honored.
(d) Proven.

4. Audre Lorde points out that productivity in Russia is measured by ___________ and not by money as it is in other areas.
(a) Community.
(b) Cleanliness.
(c) Power.
(d) Food.

5. Audre Lorde characterizes the people in Uzbekistan as being __________ as she moves through the countryside.
(a) Dull.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Helpful.
(d) Industrious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.

3. Audre Lorde sees that black men encourage black women to identify themselves in terms of their ___________ to their black male partners.

4. Audre Lorde challenges the people at the panel to look at their lives as she looked at her possible _______________.

5. Audre Lorde sees poetry as the formation of ______________, rather than helping to express what's already there.

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