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

2. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.
(a) Settlers.
(b) Medicine women.
(c) Goddesses.
(d) Co-wives.

3. Audre Lorde believe the forms of human blindness can be remedied through the realization that ___________ can be enriching.
(a) Community.
(b) Differences.
(c) Sameness.
(d) Blindness.

4. This section encompasses a talk which Audre Lorde gave during a "Lesbian and _________ Panel" in 1977.
(a) Ethics.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Movement.
(d) Literature.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. The acceptance of one's feelings can lead to _____________, thus poetry can help those who are or who feel oppressed.

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

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

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