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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) Black men did not trust women who worked outside the home.
(c) Black men were not as threatened by strong women functioning outside traditional gender roles.
(d) White men encouraged women to go to work whereas black men did not.

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

3. How did early (upper middle class, white) feminists regard work?
(a) Work outside the home was equated with freedom from male oppression.
(b) They felt it was less important than education.
(c) They saw it as an added burden to the childcare they were already doing.
(d) They wanted to work but did not want to compete with men in the professions.

4. How does the author view women's desires and attempts to be like white men?
(a) She believes that it is the only way fro women to gain credibility and power in society.
(b) She disagrees strongly with this definition of feminism because it sustains the current patriarchal system.
(c) She thinks that it is acceptable for white women but not for black women.
(d) She refrains from commenting because she doesn't want to appear judgmental.

5. According to the author, who originally defined "sisterhood" in the feminist movement?
(a) Young female college students in sociology classes.
(b) Working class women.
(c) University professors.
(d) The middle class white women at the forefront of the movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assertion does the author make (once again) about who benefits from the current feminist movement?

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

3. What is the awareness about sexual oppression that the author advocates?

4. According to the author, how has the relationship between feminism and the family often been portrayed?

5. At the end of the Preface to the second edition, where does the author maintain that a feminist path will lead us?

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