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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 age and profession.
(c) Whether men were married or single.
(d) Differences in religion and age.

3. In the Preface to the second edition (2000), how does the author characterize the later reception of her work?
(a) Male academics find the work too exclusive.
(b) Women of color still feel that the author does not address their concerns.
(c) Many people embrace her ideas but do not give her any credit for them.
(d) The people who first rejected the book came to regard the author's innovations as necessary and valuable.

4. How does the author present education in the title of Chapter Eight
(a) As a teen agenda.
(b) As a feminist agenda.
(c) As as a class agenda.
(d) As a dilemma.

5. What must be learned in order for the feminist movement to be successful?
(a) Men must learn non-violence.
(b) Working class and non-white men must learn to reject capitalist patriarchy.
(c) Everyone must learn to not accept and/or live according to traditional sexist attitudes.
(d) Women must learn to compete with men in the workforce.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The problem that has no name" is a quotation by which author?

2. What do feminists need to consider when examining their beliefs about men?

3. In the Preface to the first edition (1984), which two key terms in her analysis does the author introduce?

4. The author cites Lillian Hellman's autobiography as an example of what kind of phenomenon?

5. Who must be retrained in order for the feminist movement to be successful?

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