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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 major difference between white and black men does the author point out?
(a) White men were not as threatened by strong women functioning outside traditional gender roles.
(b) White men encouraged women to go to work whereas black men did not.
(c) Black men were not as threatened by strong women functioning outside traditional gender roles.
(d) Black men did not trust women who worked outside the home.

2. What would this change in language suggest?
(a) It would make the idea of belonging to a movement more visible.
(b) It would be active rather than passive.
(c) It would affirm personal identity.
(d) It would suggest belief and participation in social action for change, rather than a confrontational approach.

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 women from different universities.
(b) Only between women from different social classes.
(c) Challenges to sisterhood do not really occur between other groups of women.
(d) Between different groups of non-white women, women of different classes and/or races/ethnicities, and women of different sexual orientations.

4. What belief about men did early feminists act out, according to the author.
(a) The belief that men were like children.
(b) The belief that men were role models.
(c) The belief that men were unimportant.
(d) The belief that all men were the enemy.

5. At the end of the Preface (2000), what does the author say regarding "patriarchal mass media" and feminism?
(a) It completely ignores feminism and feminists.
(b) It appropriates feminist language for its own uses.
(c) It trashes feminism or tells the public it is a dead movement.
(d) It creates low self-esteem in feminists.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author propose to prioritize the struggles against various forms of prejudice?

2. How does the author describe Betty Friedan in Chapter 1?

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

4. How does the author support her claims about the reception of black women's efforts in the early feminist movement?

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

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