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

2. Audre Lorde asks the audience what __________ they might be enduring in silence rather than speaking against them.
(a) Laws.
(b) Lies.
(c) Powers.
(d) Injustices.

3. Who greets Audre Lorde at the airport when she travels to Tashket, a city which reminds her of Ghana?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Her publisher.
(c) Children.
(d) A priest.

4. Instead of World War II, what do the Russians call this war, according to the findings of Audre Lorde?
(a) Great Patriotic War.
(b) The Bad War.
(c) The Good War.
(d) The World War III.

5. ____________ can create an illusion of protection from those who might wish one harm, according to Audre Lorde.
(a) Rights.
(b) Government power.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Invisibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ is necessary to the female condition, according to Audre Lorde, in this section of the book.

2. 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.

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

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

5. Black men seem to view black women as threatening if they become __________, according to Audre Lorde.

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