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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. How did early (upper middle class, white) feminists regard work?
(a) They saw it as an added burden to the childcare they were already doing.
(b) Work outside the home was equated with freedom from male oppression.
(c) They wanted to work but did not want to compete with men in the professions.
(d) They felt it was less important than education.

4. How does the author view the concept of personal freedom?
(a) It is grounded in preserving the patriarchal, capitalist, individualist status quo.
(b) It is an honorable and uplifting concept.
(c) It promises to be an idea around which the feminist movement can rally.
(d) It runs the risk of promoting sexual infidelity.

5. Who is affected by sexist attitudes in the author's view?
(a) Women.
(b) Both men and women.
(c) Gay men.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the title of Chapter Five, what term is used to describe men's relationship to the feminist movement.

2. How were black women's efforts received by white feminists?

3. On what levels of culture and society is violence most likely to exist?

4. What qualities does the author promote in this final chapter on change via the feminist movement?

5. According to the author, tensions about motherhood existed between which two schools of thought?

(see the answer key)

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