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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. For the author, what perspective really changed the direction of feminist thought?
(a) Looking back at women's history.
(b) Accepting men into the movement.
(c) Looking at the interlocking nature of race, class, and gender.
(d) Creating women's studies departments in universities.

2. What is the author's main contention about work in Chapter Seven?
(a) Ideas and attitudes about work must change.
(b) There needs to be better statistical data about employment.
(c) The government should create more jobs.
(d) Professors are underpaid.

3. What is the primary "point of contact" between the oppressor and the oppressed?
(a) Marriage.
(b) There is very little actual contact.
(c) The work environment.
(d) Absence of choices.

4. According to the author, who originally defined "sisterhood" in the feminist movement?
(a) University professors.
(b) Young female college students in sociology classes.
(c) Working class women.
(d) The middle class white women at the forefront of the movement.

5. According to the author, how are joint analyses of race, class, and gender seen today?
(a) They are exclusively embraced in university settings.
(b) They are mostly practiced by black intellectuals.
(c) They are still rejected by mainstream feminists as too radical.
(d) They are accepted by mainstream feminism as common practice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the author's central theory about the nature (and practice) of violence against women?

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?

4. What potential effect can feminism have on the family, in the author's view?

5. The phrase "suffering cannot be measured and compared quantitatively" comes from which of the following authors?

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