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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 do feminists need to consider when examining their beliefs about men?
(a) How lower and working class men and non-white men are also oppressed.
(b) How often men use sexist language.
(c) Whether it is safe to alter their beliefs about men.
(d) Whether or not men deserve to be included in feminism.

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

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

4. How does the author characterize black women's future role in the feminist movement?
(a) She believes that black women have an important role to play in deepening and broadening the movement.
(b) She describes their future role along the lines of a hostile takeover.
(c) She believes that they will no longer need feminism.
(d) She thinks that they would be better off starting their own movement.

5. What must be learned in order for the feminist movement to be successful?
(a) Working class and non-white men must learn to reject capitalist patriarchy.
(b) Everyone must learn to not accept and/or live according to traditional sexist attitudes.
(c) Men must learn non-violence.
(d) Women must learn to compete with men in the workforce.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the author, what activity would be most likely to help spread feminism and its goals to a wider cross section of women?

2. The phrase "suffering cannot be measured and compared quantitatively" comes from which of the following authors?

3. How does the author present education in the title of Chapter Eight

4. In the author's view, which prejudices is it important for women of color to transcend?

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

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