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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. What has desensitized women and men to violence in the author's view?
(a) She does not feel that women have become desensitized to violence.
(b) Its prevalence in the media.
(c) Its use in everyday language.
(d) Their families.

2. According to the author, how did early feminists see gender?
(a) As the sole determinant of a woman's fate.
(b) As less important than race.
(c) As a form of empowerment.
(d) As less important than class.

3. 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 saw all women as oppressed but had no real awareness of the life of a non-white, non-middle class women.
(c) Their perspective is difficult to pin down since they were from many different social backgrounds.
(d) They were overly concerned with saving poor women.

4. According to the author, in Chapter 1, "Black Women - Shaping Feminist Theory," what were black feminists initially trying to do in the feminist movement?
(a) To get more work.
(b) Be more like white feminists.
(c) To expand the basis of feminist thought.
(d) Make new friends.

5. What did these early feminists forget to take into account in their beliefs about men?
(a) Differences in age and profession.
(b) Whether men were married or single.
(c) Differences in religion and age.
(d) Differences in race and class.

Short Answer Questions

1. Related to the issue of feminist writing, between which two groups does the author notice tension in the greater feminist movement?

2. What is the author's central theory about the nature (and practice) of violence against women?

3. In the title of Chapter Five, what term is used to describe men's relationship to the feminist movement.

4. What is the author's contention about the feelings that defined sisterhood?

5. How does the author view women's desires and attempts to be like white men?

(see the answer key)

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