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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 has been the result of this mode of circulation?
(a) It has kept feminist thought more localized, since word of mouth does not travel over large distances.
(b) It has limited access to feminist ideas to those who own televisions.
(c) It has limited participation in the movement to those who can read.
(d) It has made feminist thought accessible to a wider range of women.

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

3. According to the author, challenges to to sisterhood can exist between white women and women of color; between which other groups does she say that they can exist?
(a) Between different groups of non-white women, women of different classes and/or races/ethnicities, and women of different sexual orientations.
(b) Challenges to sisterhood do not really occur between other groups of women.
(c) Only between women from different social classes.
(d) Between women from different universities.

4. What does it ultimately mean for the author when women behave like white men?
(a) It means that they are traitors to their gender.
(b) It means that these women are creating a more successful life.
(c) It's an important sign of the sexual revolution.
(d) It means that there are more white men, i.e. there is no new definition of humanity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, the author states that feminist theory and the feminist movement were originally shaped by which type of people?

2. What group of women are left out but really stand to benefit more from feminist thought?

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

4. For the author, what is a better way to arrive at a definition of sisterhood?

5. How are black and white men the same in the author's view?

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