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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author present education in the title of Chapter Eight
(a) As a feminist agenda.
(b) As a teen agenda.
(c) As as a class agenda.
(d) As a dilemma.

2. For the author, what is a better way to arrive at a definition of sisterhood?
(a) By finding out which men are truly oppressive.
(b) The movement does not need a definition of sisterhood.
(c) Through solidarity in the face of all forms of oppression.
(d) Through sustained debate.

3. Why did many lower/middle class and/or non-white women respond to early feminist views on work as they did?
(a) They were already working and new it was not the ideal situation that others imagined.
(b) They hoped to create strategies for career advancement.
(c) They wanted to be included in the movement.
(d) They felt that the work they wanted would never be available.

4. What change to the language expressing involvement in feminism does the author advocate?
(a) Change "I advocate feminism" to "I am a feminist."
(b) Change "I am a feminist" to "I advocate feminism."
(c) Change "I am a feminist" to "I support the feminist movement."
(d) Change "I advocate feminism" to "I support the feminist movement."

5. "The problem that has no name" is a quotation by which author?
(a) Leah Fritz.
(b) Rita Mae Brown.
(c) Bell hooks.
(d) Betty Friedan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has portrayed the relationship between feminism and the family in this way? (See question # 61)

2. In the Preface to the first edition (1984), what general theme does the author present?

3. In the Preface, which four factors are most central to the author's argument about a person's position in society?

4. What has happened as a result of the form taken by the majority of feminist writing?

5. Which definition of feminism does not work, according to the author?

(see the answer key)

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