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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. The phrase "suffering cannot be measured and compared quantitatively" comes from which of the following authors?
(a) Leah Fritz.
(b) Benjamin Barber.
(c) Betty Friedan.
(d) Rita Mae Brown.

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) Instituting new national holidays.
(c) City planning.
(d) Religion.

3. Who must be retrained in order for the feminist movement to be successful?
(a) Men and women.
(b) White upper class men.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Men.

4. According to the author's Preface (2000), where is visionary feminist discourse increasingly talked about?
(a) In beauty parlors.
(b) Inside factories and in union meeting halls.
(c) In the corridors of the educated elite.
(d) In university sororities.

5. How does the author describe feminism in the U.S.?
(a) As a collective Marxist movement.
(b) As a separatist movement.
(c) As a bourgeois ideology based on liberal individualism.
(d) As a radical revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did early (upper middle class, white) feminists regard work?

2. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?

3. What group of women are left out but really stand to benefit more from feminist thought?

4. How did women working for change initially view the exercise of power?

5. In the Preface to the first edition (1984), what general theme does the author present?

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