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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 observations does the author make about women and the practice of violence?
(a) Women also have a capacity for violence and many condone and advocate war.
(b) Women are more violent as teenagers.
(c) Women are essentially nonviolent by nature.
(d) Women are actually more violent than men.

2. According to the title of Chapter Nine, what is one of the primary goals of the feminist movement?
(a) To develop a new rating system for DVDs and video games.
(b) To create a government department overseeing women's issues.
(c) To legalize prostitution.
(d) To end violence, especially against women.

3. What has been the result of this mode of circulation?
(a) It has limited access to feminist ideas to those who own televisions.
(b) It has limited participation in the movement to those who can read.
(c) It has made feminist thought accessible to a wider range of women.
(d) It has kept feminist thought more localized, since word of mouth does not travel over large distances.

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

5. In Chapter Four, what does the author give as the broad definition of "sisterhood" from the early feminist movement?
(a) Common religion among women.
(b) Women who share the same parents.
(c) Unity between women.
(d) Unity between working women.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the author, what is a better way to arrive at a definition of sisterhood?

2. In Chapter 1, the author states that feminist theory and the feminist movement were originally shaped by which type of people?

3. What are some of the biggest challenges to sisterhood?

4. In Chapter 1, what key term does the author use to talk about the "racial politic" in the U.S.?

5. What group of women are left out but really stand to benefit more from feminist thought?

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