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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is violence truly a manifestation of for the author?
(a) Insecurity.
(b) Imperialism, power, and a hierarchy of control.
(c) Hatred of women, especially the mother.
(d) Sexual inadequacy.

2. What aspects of society, for example, would women be able to work towards changing if they were freed from exploitation.
(a) Politics and economics.
(b) Religion.
(c) City planning.
(d) Instituting new national holidays.

3. Which of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of long accepted views of motherhood?
(a) It is a woman's unique gift and should be held sacred.
(b) The mother is the only parent capable of good parenting.
(c) The home is the only place where good parenting can occur.
(d) Women should not nurse in public.

4. How does the author characterize black women's future role in the feminist movement?
(a) She believes that black women have an important role to play in deepening and broadening the movement.
(b) She believes that they will no longer need feminism.
(c) She describes their future role along the lines of a hostile takeover.
(d) She thinks that they would be better off starting their own movement.

5. 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) Desegregation: Blacks were finally able to go wherever they wanted.
(c) The author does not discuss race until the end of the Preface.
(d) Upward mobility: Blacks strove to imitate whites and climb the social ladder.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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