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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the awareness about sexual oppression that the author advocates?
(a) Sexual oppression is here to stay.
(b) Men are not effected by sexual oppression but they should support ending it.
(c) Sexual oppression damages everyone and ending it will benefit everyone.
(d) Sexual oppression is derived from poor self-esteem.

2. What did these early feminists forget to take into account in their beliefs about men?
(a) Differences in race and class.
(b) Differences in religion and age.
(c) Differences in age and profession.
(d) Whether men were married or single.

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

4. Which elements define the ideal family for the author?
(a) Order, unity, respect, and fairness.
(b) Support, respect, unity and community.
(c) Unity, modesty, and communication.
(d) Order, respect, and privacy.

5. In Chapter 1, the author states that feminist theory and the feminist movement were originally shaped by which type of people?
(a) Expatriates living abroad.
(b) Middle-class white women.
(c) Working-class women.
(d) Middle-class women.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the author, what is a better way to arrive at a definition of sisterhood?

2. What is the definition of feminism proposed by the author?

3. What did she notice about white female students at the time?

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

5. For the author, which two main terms had been left out of feminist discussions when she first published her book?

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