Voyage of the Sable Venus Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does Lewis do to the quote from Abshiro Aden Mohammed, Women's Leader at a Somali refugee camp, in the poem "Verga:"? (from Pages 1 - 19)

She rearranges the words to create new lines and phrases.

She rewrites it in Spanish.

She switches the roles of the men and the women.

She changes the punctuation.

2.

What did Lewis learn she had to do while looking at furniture exhibits in museums in order to find Black women? (from Pages 137 - 159)

Ask the security guards to give her permission to touch the furniture.

Use a flashlight.

Crawl along the floor.

Use a magnifying glass.

3.

What kind of poem is "Pleasure & Understanding"? (from Pages 125 - 136)

A villanelle.

An elegy.

A Petrarchan sonnet.

A ghazal.

4.

What does Lewis state is one of her objectives in the prologue of "Voyage of the Sable Venus"? (from Pages 32 - 82)

To make the Sable Venus come alive, and inhabit a space of her own in art history.

To reveal the flaws of artists/museums, and show how misleading art can be.

To rewrite art history beginning with prehistoric art.

To show how art and those who create/display it influence thought, are complicit in the creation of history.

5.

What did Lewis come to see was the real issue with the Black female figures she saw? (from Pages 137 - 159)

Their brokenness and fragmentation.

Their anononymity and namelessness.

Their idea that they were not alive and did not exist.

Their names.

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