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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 can happen to women in light of the social views about their gender?
(a) Women can absorb these views and manifest them in their lives in negative ways.
(b) Women can simply imitate men and these views will not affect them.
(c) Nothing happens to women; they are not influenced by social attitudes.
(d) There is no proof that social attitudes affect individual choices.

2. What did she notice about white female students at the time?
(a) They were afraid to look at each other in class.
(b) They were at college in order to find husbands.
(c) They were very excited about creating community and being together.
(d) They were not very smart.

3. What group of women are left out but really stand to benefit more from feminist thought?
(a) College women.
(b) Housewives.
(c) Illiterate women.
(d) Middle class women.

4. When and where did the author enroll in her first women's studies class?
(a) At Stanford in the 1970s.
(b) At Howard in the 1970s.
(c) At Brown in the early 1980s.
(d) At UCLA in the late 1960s.

5. According to the author, who originally defined "sisterhood" in the feminist movement?
(a) Young female college students in sociology classes.
(b) Working class women.
(c) University professors.
(d) The middle class white women at the forefront of the movement.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Were there ever alternate reactions to black women's efforts to participate in the early feminist movement, and if so what were they?

3. What observations does the author make about women and the practice of violence?

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

5. How does the author support her claims about the reception of black women's efforts in the early feminist movement?

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