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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the social and racial dynamic described by the author at the beginning of the Preface to the first edition of the book?
(a) The author does not discuss race until the end of the Preface.
(b) Desegregation: Blacks were finally able to go wherever they wanted.
(c) Segregation: Black people could enter parts of the white people's world, but they could not stay there.
(d) Upward mobility: Blacks strove to imitate whites and climb the social ladder.

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?
(a) Gender, then race.
(b) Gender, then size.
(c) Race, then gender.
(d) Race, then size.

4. What did she notice about white female students at the time?
(a) They were at college in order to find husbands.
(b) They were not very smart.
(c) They were afraid to look at each other in class.
(d) They were very excited about creating community and being together.

5. According to the author, how did early feminists see gender?
(a) As the sole determinant of a woman's fate.
(b) As less important than race.
(c) As a form of empowerment.
(d) As less important than class.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author opens the Preface to the first edition of the book with a description of which group and its experiences in life?

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

3. For the author, what must happen to feminism in order for it to have "a revolutionary, transformative impact on society"?

4. "The problem that has no name" is a quotation by which author?

5. What is the primary "point of contact" between the oppressor and the oppressed?

(see the answer key)

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