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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the awareness about sexual oppression that the author advocates?
(a) Sexual oppression is here to stay.
(b) Sexual oppression is derived from poor self-esteem.
(c) Men are not effected by sexual oppression but they should support ending it.
(d) Sexual oppression damages everyone and ending it will benefit everyone.

2. How are black and white men the same in the author's view?
(a) They are both capable of sexual oppression and violence against women, whether sexual or non-sexual.
(b) They both stand to lose power as a result of feminism.
(c) They are not the same in the author's view.
(d) They both do not want women to be strong and assertive.

3. Who has portrayed the relationship between feminism and the family in this way? (See question # 61)
(a) The child protective services.
(b) Most feminists hold this view.
(c) Outsiders to the movement and sometimes feminists in the movement who want to create women-only communities.
(d) All men.

4. Based on your understanding of the two Prefaces, who does the author wish to reach with her work?
(a) As wide and diverse of an audience as possible.
(b) Men.
(c) Women of color.
(d) Mainly people who are brand new to feminism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first chapter, how does the author characterize the perspective of the women involved in the early feminist movement?

2. What is the definition of feminism proposed by the author?

3. What were black women mostly encouraged to talk about in the early days of the feminist movement.

4. What do feminists need to consider when examining their beliefs about men?

5. The author opens the Preface to the first edition of the book with a description of which group and its experiences in life?

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