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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 is the author's contention about the feelings that defined sisterhood?
(a) Actually, she does not see anything wrong with them.
(b) She finds them to be unjustified.
(c) She suggests that they support sexist, patriarchal attitudes towards women.
(d) She thinks they have a lot to do with insecurity around men.
2. What are some of the biggest challenges to sisterhood?
(a) Global warming, politics, and religion.
(b) Racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism.
(c) There used to be challenges but they have lessened.
(d) Unfair business practices.
3. How does the author describe Betty Friedan in Chapter 1?
(a) As a major proponent of integration within the feminist movement.
(b) As a marginal woman who rose to prominence.
(c) As the author of a seminal feminist work whose theories have a white, middle-class bias.
(d) As a creative genius who was misunderstood.
4. Were there ever alternate reactions to black women's efforts to participate in the early feminist movement, and if so what were they?
(a) Black feminists' ideas about class were accepted, but not their ideas about race.
(b) Sometimes their ideas inspired new understanding and growth in the movement.
(c) Black women were always seen as a threat to the movement.
(d) Some white feminists rejected their ideas but most did not.
5. According to the author, how are joint analyses of race, class, and gender seen today?
(a) They are accepted by mainstream feminism as common practice.
(b) They are still rejected by mainstream feminists as too radical.
(c) They are exclusively embraced in university settings.
(d) They are mostly practiced by black intellectuals.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the main relationship discussed in Chapter 5?
2. What group of women are left out but really stand to benefit more from feminist thought?
3. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?
4. How does the author view women's desires and attempts to be like white men?
5. How is violence often represented in western culture?
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