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

2. How does the author describe feminism in the U.S.?
(a) As a bourgeois ideology based on liberal individualism.
(b) As a separatist movement.
(c) As a radical revolution.
(d) As a collective Marxist movement.

3. For the author, what activity would be most likely to help spread feminism and its goals to a wider cross section of women?
(a) Promoting literacy.
(b) Buying ad space on television.
(c) Holding town hall events.
(d) Printing more pamphlets.

4. "The problem that has no name" is a quotation by which author?
(a) Leah Fritz.
(b) Bell hooks.
(c) Rita Mae Brown.
(d) Betty Friedan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What belief about men did early feminists act out, according to the author.

2. In the title of Chapter Five, what term is used to describe men's relationship to the feminist movement.

3. According to the author, how are joint analyses of race, class, and gender seen today?

4. What is violence truly a manifestation of for the author?

5. According to the author, how did early feminists see gender?

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