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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, in what form has feminist thought primarily been circulated?
(a) Through television commercials.
(b) Via the written word (e.g. books, pamphlets, etc.).
(c) Via the radio.
(d) By word of mouth.

2. What are some of the biggest challenges to sisterhood?
(a) Global warming, politics, and religion.
(b) There used to be challenges but they have lessened.
(c) Unfair business practices.
(d) Racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism.

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

4. How does the author describe Betty Friedan in Chapter 1?
(a) As a major proponent of integration within the feminist movement.
(b) As the author of a seminal feminist work whose theories have a white, middle-class bias.
(c) As a marginal woman who rose to prominence.
(d) As a creative genius who was misunderstood.

5. How is violence often represented in western culture?
(a) As something only practiced by villains.
(b) As sexually titillating, and even associated with love and romance.
(c) As reprehensible, no matter who commits it.
(d) As a symbol of life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author cites Lillian Hellman's autobiography as an example of what kind of phenomenon?

3. What did these early feminists forget to take into account in their beliefs about men?

4. What does it ultimately mean for the author when women behave like white men?

5. According to the author, in Chapter 1, "Black Women - Shaping Feminist Theory," what were black feminists initially trying to do in the feminist movement?

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