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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What assertion does the author make (once again) about who benefits from the current feminist movement?
(a) It can, and will, benefit people of both genders and all ages.
(b) She states that white middle class women stand to benefit more than anyone else.
(c) Children will benefit, but not the current generation.
(d) Only women will benefit from the movement.

2. What major difference between white and black men does the author point out?
(a) White men were not as threatened by strong women functioning outside traditional gender roles.
(b) Black men were not as threatened by strong women functioning outside traditional gender roles.
(c) Black men did not trust women who worked outside the home.
(d) White men encouraged women to go to work whereas black men did not.

3. Who has portrayed the relationship between feminism and the family in this way? (See question # 61)
(a) The child protective services.
(b) Most feminists hold this view.
(c) All men.
(d) Outsiders to the movement and sometimes feminists in the movement who want to create women-only communities.

4. The author expresses how feminism reacts to "a political system of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy;" how does she view the state of our society today?
(a) No advances have been made despite the best efforts of the movement.
(b) In spite of the social advances of the last few decades, this system is still entrenched; therefore, feminist work is still relevant.
(c) Feminism has completely transformed the system at all levels.
(d) Our contemporary society has made race irrelevant.

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 does the author view women's desires and attempts to be like white men?

2. What was the early feminist belief about creating change according to the author?

3. What question does the author raise about the desire for equality with men?

4. In Chapter 1, the author states that feminist theory and the feminist movement were originally shaped by which type of people?

5. As stated in the 1984 Preface, what is the primary weakness of feminist theory that the author promises to address in her book?

(see the answer key)

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