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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?
(a) They need further political education.
(b) They work all the time.
(c) They have met with a lot of defeat.
(d) They have lived in circumstances that required self-reliance, rather than dependency.

2. How does the author characterize black women's future role in the feminist movement?
(a) She believes that black women have an important role to play in deepening and broadening the movement.
(b) She believes that they will no longer need feminism.
(c) She describes their future role along the lines of a hostile takeover.
(d) She thinks that they would be better off starting their own movement.

3. What is the awareness about sexual oppression that the author advocates?
(a) Sexual oppression is derived from poor self-esteem.
(b) Sexual oppression damages everyone and ending it will benefit everyone.
(c) Sexual oppression is here to stay.
(d) Men are not effected by sexual oppression but they should support ending it.

4. What does the author suggest about many successful feminists and their relationship with power?
(a) They develop an inferiority complex.
(b) They try to dominate men.
(c) They embody and/or capitalize upon male definitions of power and success.
(d) They become power hungry to the point of fanaticism.

5. How are black and white men the same in the author's view?
(a) They both do not want women to be strong and assertive.
(b) They are both capable of sexual oppression and violence against women, whether sexual or non-sexual.
(c) They are not the same in the author's view.
(d) They both stand to lose power as a result of feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did many lower/middle class and/or non-white women respond to this view of work?

2. According to the author, in what form has feminist thought primarily been circulated?

3. According to the author's Preface (2000), where is visionary feminist discourse increasingly talked about?

4. The phrase "the problem that has no name" refers to which of the following issues?

5. At the end of the Preface (2000), what does the author say regarding "patriarchal mass media" and feminism?

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