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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states that most women would like to be like ________________.
(a) their mentors.
(b) white men.
(c) their best friends.
(d) their mothers.

2. When and where did the author enroll in her first women's studies class?
(a) At UCLA in the late 1960s.
(b) At Howard in the 1970s.
(c) At Stanford in the 1970s.
(d) At Brown in the early 1980s.

3. The author opens the Preface to the first edition of the book with a description of which group and its experiences in life?
(a) Black Americans living in a small town in Kentucky.
(b) White upper class American women.
(c) Upper class black professionals.
(d) White French feminists.

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

5. How does the author describe feminism in the U.S.?
(a) As a bourgeois ideology based on liberal individualism.
(b) As a radical revolution.
(c) As a collective Marxist movement.
(d) As a separatist movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Overall, what does the author think about the effects of the feminist movement?

2. What name did early feminists use to describe radical, or revolutionary, feminists?

3. According to the author, how did early feminists see gender?

4. For the author, what perspective really changed the direction of feminist thought?

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

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