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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 definition of feminism proposed by the author?
(a) Feminism must be defined as community before anything else.
(b) Feminism should be understood as total personal freedom for everyone.
(c) The struggle to end sexist oppression in all its forms, whether economic, political, social, or sexual.
(d) Everyone should develop her own definition of feminism.

2. According to the author's Preface (2000), where is visionary feminist discourse increasingly talked about?
(a) In beauty parlors.
(b) Inside factories and in union meeting halls.
(c) In the corridors of the educated elite.
(d) In university sororities.

3. According to the author, challenges to to sisterhood can exist between white women and women of color; between which other groups does she say that they can exist?
(a) Challenges to sisterhood do not really occur between other groups of women.
(b) Between different groups of non-white women, women of different classes and/or races/ethnicities, and women of different sexual orientations.
(c) Between women from different universities.
(d) Only between women from different social classes.

4. What does the author say about the statement: "I am a feminist"?
(a) She does not think that women want to back up the statement with actions.
(b) She says it may imply a rigid us vs. them mentality or belief system.
(c) She worries that it is not forceful enough.
(d) This statement allows women to feel more empowered and gain more respect.

5. What is the author's contention about the feelings that defined sisterhood?
(a) She finds them to be unjustified.
(b) She thinks they have a lot to do with insecurity around men.
(c) Actually, she does not see anything wrong with them.
(d) She suggests that they support sexist, patriarchal attitudes towards women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What general statement does the author make about men that may seem to contradict her other claims?

2. In Chapter 2, what are the author's thoughts on a universally accepted definition of feminism?

3. What does it ultimately mean for the author when women behave like white men?

4. According to the author, how has the relationship between feminism and the family often been portrayed?

5. In the title of Chapter Five, what term is used to describe men's relationship to the feminist movement.

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