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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) Female.
(b) White.
(c) Male.
(d) Black.

2. Audre Lorde makes a trip to be an observer at the Union of Soviet Writers' African-Asian Writers Conference in __________.
(a) 1977.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1956.

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

4. Contemplating her own ____________ gives Audre Lorde the perspective she needs in order to see the silence does not protect from fear.
(a) Effectiveness.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Logic.
(d) Mortality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. African ________ and the Amazon women of ancient Dahoney are examples Audre Lorde cites of women-identified women.

2. Black __________ are even more threatening, according to Audre Lorde, since they do not fit into a _____________.

3. Efik Ebibio is married to a man, but actively speaks of a ___________ relationship with another married woman.

4. What does Audre Lorde's guide complain about when it comes to the Russian working class?

5. A women interviews Audre Lorde because the writer is doing a story about ___________.

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