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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were black women's efforts received by white feminists?
(a) They were mostly met with resentment and derision.
(b) They were completely ignored.
(c) They were seen as disorganized.
(d) They were openly embraced.

2. Overall, what does the author think about the effects of the feminist movement?
(a) It has not done enough to reach out to both genders.
(b) It has created amazing changes in the lives of girls and boys, and women and men.
(c) The feminist movement has not changed the educational landscape.
(d) The movement has had positive effects, but mostly in the academic world.

3. At the end of the Preface (2000), what does the author say regarding "patriarchal mass media" and feminism?
(a) It appropriates feminist language for its own uses.
(b) It creates low self-esteem in feminists.
(c) It completely ignores feminism and feminists.
(d) It trashes feminism or tells the public it is a dead movement.

4. What were black women mostly encouraged to talk about in the early days of the feminist movement.
(a) Feminist theory.
(b) Race, class. and gender.
(c) Race.
(d) Class and privilege.

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) Feminism has completely transformed the system at all levels.
(c) In spite of the social advances of the last few decades, this system is still entrenched; therefore, feminist work is still relevant.
(d) No advances have been made despite the best efforts of the movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the Preface to the second edition, where does the author maintain that a feminist path will lead us?

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?

3. The phrase "the problem that has no name" refers to which of the following issues?

4. Based on your understanding of the two Prefaces, who does the author wish to reach with her work?

5. How does the author see feminism and the family?

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