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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author view housework?
(a) As demeaning.
(b) As extremely tiring.
(c) As women's work.
(d) As creative and life-affirming-sometimes more so than work outside the home.

2. What does the author suggest about many successful feminists and their relationship with power?
(a) They become power hungry to the point of fanaticism.
(b) They develop an inferiority complex.
(c) They embody and/or capitalize upon male definitions of power and success.
(d) They try to dominate men.

3. How does the author describe the family in "Western society"?
(a) Television has destroyed family relationships.
(b) It is no longer the primary social unit.
(c) For centuries it has been dominated by a sexist, patriarchal, authoritarian model.
(d) The Western family is based on nurturing and equality.

4. In the author's view, how did early feminists understand work, i.e what did they identify as successful work?
(a) It was identified with capitalist, patriarchal standards of success (money and power).
(b) It was understood as related to traditionally feminine tasks.
(c) It was identified with creative expression.
(d) They did not yet have a clear view of what made work successful.

5. In the first chapter, how does the author characterize the perspective of the women involved in the early feminist movement?
(a) They thought working women were not true feminists.
(b) They were overly concerned with saving poor women.
(c) Their perspective is difficult to pin down since they were from many different social backgrounds.
(d) They saw all women as oppressed but had no real awareness of the life of a non-white, non-middle class women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must happen in order for women to create true sisterhood?

2. How did many lower/middle class and/or non-white women respond to this view of work?

3. How does the author present education in the title of Chapter Eight

4. What opinion does the author express regarding the connection between early feminist concepts of sexual liberty and the movement to end sexual oppression?

5. According to the author, challenges to to sisterhood can exist between white women and women of color; between which other groups does she say that they can exist?

(see the answer key)

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