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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author support her claims about the reception of black women's efforts in the early feminist movement?
(a) She presents a series of interviews that she conducted.
(b) She does not support her claims with evidence.
(c) She presents statistical research.
(d) She cites anecdotal evidence based on personal experience.

2. What name did early feminists use to describe radical, or revolutionary, feminists?
(a) Sisters.
(b) Traitors.
(c) Naive.
(d) Spoilers.

3. 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.

4. 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) Desegregation: Blacks were finally able to go wherever they wanted.
(b) The author does not discuss race until the end of the Preface.
(c) Upward mobility: Blacks strove to imitate whites and climb the social ladder.
(d) Segregation: Black people could enter parts of the white people's world, but they could not stay there.

5. The author expresses how feminism reacts to "a political system of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy;" how does she view the state of our society today?
(a) Our contemporary society has made race irrelevant.
(b) No advances have been made despite the best efforts of the movement.
(c) In spite of the social advances of the last few decades, this system is still entrenched; therefore, feminist work is still relevant.
(d) Feminism has completely transformed the system at all levels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were black women mostly encouraged to talk about in the early days of the feminist movement.

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

3. How does the author characterize black women's future role in the feminist movement?

4. How does the author view women's desires and attempts to be like white men?

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

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