1. In the first chapter, how does the author characterize the perspective of the women involved in the early feminist movement?
(a) They were overly concerned with saving poor women.
(b) They thought working women were not true feminists.
(c) Their perspective is difficult to pin down since they were from many different social backgrounds.
(d) They saw all women as oppressed but had no real awareness of the life of a non-white, non-middle class women.

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

3. From which position (or perspective) does the author claim to write in her analysis of feminism and its social manifestations?
(a) From an elite position.
(b) From the margins.
(c) From a religious perspective.
(d) From a foreign perspective.

4. What is the definition of feminism proposed by the author?
(a) Everyone should develop her own definition of feminism.
(b) Feminism must be defined as community before anything else.
(c) Feminism should be understood as total personal freedom for everyone.
(d) The struggle to end sexist oppression in all its forms, whether economic, political, social, or sexual.

5. In Chapter 1, the author states that feminist theory and the feminist movement were originally shaped by which type of people?
(a) Middle-class women.
(b) Expatriates living abroad.
(c) Working-class women.
(d) Middle-class white women.