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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would this change in language suggest?
(a) It would make the idea of belonging to a movement more visible.
(b) It would suggest belief and participation in social action for change, rather than a confrontational approach.
(c) It would be active rather than passive.
(d) It would affirm personal identity.

2. What must happen in order for women to create true sisterhood?
(a) Women must learn to organize politically.
(b) Women must learn to explore, understand, and communicate their individual experiences.
(c) Women must all agree on a single definition of sisterhood.
(d) Women must decide to get a formal education.

3. How does the author see feminism and the family?
(a) She thinks feminists that reject the family completely are justified in doing so.
(b) She feels ambivalent about the relationship between the two.
(c) She believes that the traditional family structure is fine the way it is and feminists should not try to change it.
(d) Her definition of feminism is one that is pro-family.

4. What was the shared feeling that helped define sisterhood in the early years of the movement, according to the author?
(a) A love of adventure.
(b) Desire for greater affluence.
(c) Artistic inspiration.
(d) A sense of victimization.

5. How does the author characterize the aims of the feminist movement in relationship to other movements?
(a) The aims and goals of the feminist movement are really separate from other movements.
(b) Feminists should stay focused on their own goals and not look to other movements.
(c) The feminist movements aims and intentions are interwoven with those struggling against classism, racism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppression..
(d) There is a relationship between feminism and the struggle against ageism, but that is all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What change in attitudes towards work does the author propose in Chapter Seven.

2. "The problem that has no name" is a quotation by which author?

3. What does the author say about the statement: "I am a feminist"?

4. What did these early feminists forget to take into account in their beliefs about men?

5. In the Preface to the second edition (2000), how does the author characterize the later reception of her work?

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