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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) Stalingrad.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Womens.

2. At a _________ state college, women tried to come together to support each other, only to be met with violence and shunned by their male peers.
(a) Michigan.
(b) New York.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Vermont.

3. There is only, according to Audre Lorde, the renewed __________ to try out the old ideas which are waiting around.
(a) Creativity.
(b) Courage.
(c) Inspiration.
(d) Power.

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

5. What is NOT one of the ills of life which poetry serves to cure, acting as an antidote to these ills, according to Audre Lorde?
(a) Unhealthy focus on profit.
(b) Linear power.
(c) Institutional dehumanization.
(d) Environmental destruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audre Lorde believes that poetry is able to express ____________ , which are then a direct link back to the ancient society.

2. This section encompasses a talk which Audre Lorde gave during a "Lesbian and _________ Panel" in 1977.

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

4. __________ allows injustices to go unheard and fears to remain powerful, according to Audre Lorde in her talk.

5. Who greets Audre Lorde at the airport when she travels to Tashket, a city which reminds her of Ghana?

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