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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Middle-class white women.
(c) Expatriates living abroad.
(d) Working-class women.

2. How did early feminists, and society at the time, view housework?
(a) As something a woman cannot escape.
(b) As demeaning.
(c) As relatively easy work.
(d) As an ideal job.

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

4. What was the author's initial experience in women's groups?
(a) No one would look at her.
(b) Everyone was really open-minded.
(c) She found solidarity with women from very different backgrounds.
(d) White women did not treat women of color as equals.

5. The phrase "the problem that has no name" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) Women and schizophrenia.
(b) The psychological malaise of all women in American society due to gender roles.
(c) Hating one's family.
(d) Women's fears of aging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?

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

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

4. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?

5. The author cites Lillian Hellman's autobiography as an example of what kind of phenomenon?

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