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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. What would this change in language suggest?
(a) It would suggest belief and participation in social action for change, rather than a confrontational approach.
(b) It would make the idea of belonging to a movement more visible.
(c) It would be active rather than passive.
(d) It would affirm personal identity.

2. In the author's view, what three things most determine a woman's destiny?
(a) Who she marries, her appearance, and her family name.
(b) Her alma mater, her first job, and who she marries.
(c) Her race, her gender, and who she marries.
(d) Gender, race, and class.

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

4. "The problem that has no name" is a quotation by which author?
(a) Leah Fritz.
(b) Betty Friedan.
(c) Bell hooks.
(d) Rita Mae Brown.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author characterize the aims of the feminist movement in relationship to other movements?

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

3. According to the author's Preface (2000), where is visionary feminist discourse increasingly talked about?

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

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

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