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

2. What change to the language expressing involvement in feminism does the author advocate?
(a) Change "I advocate feminism" to "I am a feminist."
(b) Change "I am a feminist" to "I support the feminist movement."
(c) Change "I am a feminist" to "I advocate feminism."
(d) Change "I advocate feminism" to "I support the feminist movement."

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

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 were overly concerned with saving poor women.
(c) They thought working women were not true feminists.
(d) They saw all women as oppressed but had no real awareness of the life of a non-white, non-middle class women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How were black women's efforts received by white feminists?

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

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

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

5. For the author, what is the relationship between traditional beliefs about the family and society at large?

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