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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author view the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities?
(a) As a new form of slavery.
(b) As an ideal kind of power.
(c) As an imitation of patriarchal models of power
(d) As a disappointment.

2. "The problem that has no name" is a quotation by which author?
(a) Bell hooks.
(b) Rita Mae Brown.
(c) Betty Friedan.
(d) Leah Fritz.

3. Overall, what does the author think about the effects of the feminist movement?
(a) It has created amazing changes in the lives of girls and boys, and women and men.
(b) It has not done enough to reach out to both genders.
(c) The feminist movement has not changed the educational landscape.
(d) The movement has had positive effects, but mostly in the academic world.

4. What opinion does the author express regarding the connection between early feminist concepts of sexual liberty and the movement to end sexual oppression?
(a) She feels they should not be the target of conservative thinkers.
(b) They are not the same thing.
(c) They are very closely related.
(d) She does not express an opinion but promises to discuss them together in a later book.

5. What major difference between white and black men does the author point out?
(a) White men encouraged women to go to work whereas black men did not.
(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 were not as threatened by strong women functioning outside traditional gender roles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the Preface (2000), what examples does the author give of the problematic status of women in contemporary society?

3. What is the author's opinion of the early feminist belief about creating change?

4. What can the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities enable them to do?

5. What observations does the author make about women and the practice of violence?

(see the answer key)

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