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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 assertion does the author make (once again) about who benefits from the current feminist movement?
(a) She states that white middle class women stand to benefit more than anyone else.
(b) Children will benefit, but not the current generation.
(c) Only women will benefit from the movement.
(d) It can, and will, benefit people of both genders and all ages.

2. For the author, what perspective really changed the direction of feminist thought?
(a) Looking back at women's history.
(b) Looking at the interlocking nature of race, class, and gender.
(c) Creating women's studies departments in universities.
(d) Accepting men into the movement.

3. The author opens the Preface to the first edition of the book with a description of which group and its experiences in life?
(a) White upper class American women.
(b) Upper class black professionals.
(c) Black Americans living in a small town in Kentucky.
(d) White French feminists.

4. How should feminists behave towards consumerism, according to the author?
(a) They should focus on more important things.
(b) They can accept it as a necessary evil.
(c) They should learn aggressive marketing tactics.
(d) Buy only what is necessary and thus resist capitalist culture and its connection to sexual oppression.

5. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?
(a) They need further political education.
(b) They have met with a lot of defeat.
(c) They work all the time.
(d) They have lived in circumstances that required self-reliance, rather than dependency.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Preface to the first edition (1984), what general theme does the author present?

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

3. Which definition of feminism does not work, according to the author?

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

5. How does the author view housework?

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