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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. 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 mostly practiced by black intellectuals.
(d) They are exclusively embraced in university settings.

2. The author states that most women would like to be like ________________.
(a) their mentors.
(b) their best friends.
(c) white men.
(d) their mothers.

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

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

5. In the first chapter, how does the author characterize the perspective of the women involved in the early feminist movement?
(a) They saw all women as oppressed but had no real awareness of the life of a non-white, non-middle class women.
(b) They thought working women were not true feminists.
(c) They were overly concerned with saving poor women.
(d) Their perspective is difficult to pin down since they were from many different social backgrounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the title of Chapter Nine, what is one of the primary goals of the feminist movement?

2. According to the author, what does society often teach women about what it means to be a woman?

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

4. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?

5. What has desensitized women and men to violence in the author's view?

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