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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Preface (2000), what examples does the author give of the problematic status of women in contemporary society?
(a) Low job benefits, high poverty, high divorce rates.
(b) High poverty, low status of single mothers, lack of state assistance and health care.
(c) High divorce rates, low job benefits, no enough day care.
(d) High poverty, high divorce rates, lack of state assistance.

2. How should feminists behave towards consumerism, according to the author?
(a) They should focus on more important things.
(b) Buy only what is necessary and thus resist capitalist culture and its connection to sexual oppression.
(c) They can accept it as a necessary evil.
(d) They should learn aggressive marketing tactics.

3. In the first chapter, how does the author characterize the perspective of the women involved in the early feminist movement?
(a) They saw all women as oppressed but had no real awareness of the life of a non-white, non-middle class women.
(b) Their perspective is difficult to pin down since they were from many different social backgrounds.
(c) They thought working women were not true feminists.
(d) They were overly concerned with saving poor women.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author characterize the aims of the feminist movement in relationship to other movements?

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

3. For the author, what must happen to feminism in order for it to have "a revolutionary, transformative impact on society"?

4. In Chapter Four, what does the author give as the broad definition of "sisterhood" from the early feminist movement?

5. According to the author, what does society often teach women about what it means to be a woman?

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