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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. How does the author view the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities?
(a) As an imitation of patriarchal models of power
(b) As a new form of slavery.
(c) As an ideal kind of power.
(d) As a disappointment.

2. What must happen in order for women to create true sisterhood?
(a) Women must all agree on a single definition of sisterhood.
(b) Women must decide to get a formal education.
(c) Women must learn to explore, understand, and communicate their individual experiences.
(d) Women must learn to organize politically.

3. What aspects of society, for example, would women be able to work towards changing if they were freed from exploitation.
(a) Religion.
(b) Instituting new national holidays.
(c) Politics and economics.
(d) City planning.

4. 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 French feminists.
(b) Black Americans living in a small town in Kentucky.
(c) White upper class American women.
(d) Upper class black professionals.

5. What can the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities enable them to do?
(a) It can enable them to resist exploitation, freeing them to transform society for the better.
(b) It will not enable them to change anything.
(c) It will enable them to keep their jobs.
(d) It enables them to reinforce the patriarchal model of power.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe feminism in the U.S.?

2. How does the author see feminism and the family?

3. In the Preface to the second edition, what is the first factor considered by black parents when a child is born, according to the author?

4. How does consumerism relate to the author's discussion of power?

5. How does the author characterize the aims of the feminist movement in relationship to other movements?

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