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

2. What can the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities enable them to do?
(a) It will not enable them to change anything.
(b) It will enable them to keep their jobs.
(c) It can enable them to resist exploitation, freeing them to transform society for the better.
(d) It enables them to reinforce the patriarchal model of power.

3. In her discussion of attitudes towards sexuality, what common problem does the author say that women and gay men share?
(a) Their situations are totally dissimilar.
(b) People accuse them of whining.
(c) They both need better spokespeople for their movements.
(d) They share similar oppressions in that neither fit the ideal model of male heterosexuality.

4. In the author's opinion, how did early feminists view violence against women?
(a) They saw men as corrupt and women as innately innocent.
(b) They thought that gender was not really at play in problems of violence.
(c) They frowned on discussing violence at all.
(d) In a way, they echoed patriarchal ideas that men had inbred aggressive tendencies and women had submissive and nurturing tendencies.

5. What was the shared feeling that helped define sisterhood in the early years of the movement, according to the author?
(a) A love of adventure.
(b) Artistic inspiration.
(c) A sense of victimization.
(d) Desire for greater affluence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspects of society, for example, would women be able to work towards changing if they were freed from exploitation.

2. How has the author's own perception of her book held up?

3. In general, the title of Chapter 1, "Black Women - Shaping Feminist Theory," relates to which of the following ideas?

4. How does the author characterize black women's future role in the feminist movement?

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

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