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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) Black lesbians.
(d) American blacks.

2. What caused Audre Lorde to examine herself more closely, as she reveals in her talk on the panel?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Benign breast tumor removal.
(c) A lover breakup.
(d) Breast cancer.

3. __________ allows injustices to go unheard and fears to remain powerful, according to Audre Lorde in her talk.
(a) Silence.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Book reading.
(d) Society.

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

5. Audre Lorde sees that black men encourage black women to identify themselves in terms of their ___________ to their black male partners.
(a) Marriage.
(b) Children.
(c) Permissiveness.
(d) Allegiance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the translator that Audre Lorde brings along with her in her travels in Russia?

2. Within the _________ community, according to Audre Lorde, members have learned to distrust each other.

3. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.

4. Audre Lorde says the illusion of __________ between groups is imposed on the oppressed individual by society.

5. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.

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