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

2. What name did early feminists use to describe radical, or revolutionary, feminists?
(a) Spoilers.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Traitors.
(d) Naive.

3. What did she notice about white female students at the time?
(a) They were very excited about creating community and being together.
(b) They were at college in order to find husbands.
(c) They were afraid to look at each other in class.
(d) They were not very smart.

4. In the Preface (2000), what examples does the author give of the problematic status of women in contemporary society?
(a) High poverty, low status of single mothers, lack of state assistance and health care.
(b) High poverty, high divorce rates, lack of state assistance.
(c) Low job benefits, high poverty, high divorce rates.
(d) High divorce rates, low job benefits, no enough day care.

5. What potential effect can feminism have on the family, in the author's view?
(a) It can help maintain the traditional structure of the Western family.
(b) It can draw attention away from the family towards more important things.
(c) It can undermine family stability.
(d) It can transform the family in very positive ways.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What belief about men did early feminists act out, according to the author.

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

5. What is the author's contention about the feelings that defined sisterhood?

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