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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When and where did the author enroll in her first women's studies class?
(a) At Brown in the early 1980s.
(b) At Howard in the 1970s.
(c) At Stanford in the 1970s.
(d) At UCLA in the late 1960s.

2. What did she notice about white female students at the time?
(a) They were very excited about creating community and being together.
(b) They were not very smart.
(c) They were afraid to look at each other in class.
(d) They were at college in order to find husbands.

3. In the Preface to the first edition (1984), which two key terms in her analysis does the author introduce?
(a) Inside and outside.
(b) Liberal and conservative.
(c) Intellectual and illiterate.
(d) Margin and center.

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

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

6. What do feminists need to consider when examining their beliefs about men?
(a) Whether it is safe to alter their beliefs about men.
(b) Whether or not men deserve to be included in feminism.
(c) How often men use sexist language.
(d) How lower and working class men and non-white men are also oppressed.

7. 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) Feminism has completely transformed the system at all levels.
(c) Our contemporary society has made race irrelevant.
(d) In spite of the social advances of the last few decades, this system is still entrenched; therefore, feminist work is still relevant.

8. What must be learned in order for the feminist movement to be successful?
(a) Women must learn to compete with men in the workforce.
(b) Men must learn non-violence.
(c) Working class and non-white men must learn to reject capitalist patriarchy.
(d) Everyone must learn to not accept and/or live according to traditional sexist attitudes.

9. According to the author's Preface (2000), where is visionary feminist discourse increasingly talked about?
(a) In beauty parlors.
(b) In the corridors of the educated elite.
(c) In university sororities.
(d) Inside factories and in union meeting halls.

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

11. The phrase "the problem that has no name" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) Women's fears of aging.
(b) Women and schizophrenia.
(c) The psychological malaise of all women in American society due to gender roles.
(d) Hating one's family.

12. In the author's view, is it valid to define feminism in terms of creating a sense of community?
(a) The definition is too vague to be useful.
(b) Community is something that all women lack so it is way to define feminism.
(c) She claims that non-white, lower class women, who already have a strong sense of community may not find this definition adequate.
(d) Yes, this should be part of the universal definition of feminism.

13. How does the author support her claims about the reception of black women's efforts in the early feminist movement?
(a) She does not support her claims with evidence.
(b) She presents a series of interviews that she conducted.
(c) She presents statistical research.
(d) She cites anecdotal evidence based on personal experience.

14. What can happen to women in light of the social views about their gender?
(a) Women can simply imitate men and these views will not affect them.
(b) Nothing happens to women; they are not influenced by social attitudes.
(c) Women can absorb these views and manifest them in their lives in negative ways.
(d) There is no proof that social attitudes affect individual choices.

15. How does the author feel about defining feminism as enabling total personal freedom?
(a) She thinks it is immoral.
(b) She sees this as the most favorable definition of feminism.
(c) She finds the definition to vague.
(d) She sees it as very limiting for women since it is a male-defined model.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The phrase "suffering cannot be measured and compared quantitatively" comes from which of the following authors?

3. According to the author, in Chapter 1, "Black Women - Shaping Feminist Theory," what were black feminists initially trying to do in the feminist movement?

4. How does the author see feminism and the family?

5. At the end of the Preface to the second edition, where does the author maintain that a feminist path will lead us?

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