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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Inside factories and in union meeting halls.
(d) In university sororities.

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

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

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

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

6. 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) In spite of the social advances of the last few decades, this system is still entrenched; therefore, feminist work is still relevant.
(b) Feminism has completely transformed the system at all levels.
(c) No advances have been made despite the best efforts of the movement.
(d) Our contemporary society has made race irrelevant.

7. In the title of Chapter Five, what term is used to describe men's relationship to the feminist movement.
(a) Enemy number one.
(b) The oppressor.
(c) Friends of the cause.
(d) Comrades in struggle.

8. What belief about men did early feminists act out, according to the author.
(a) The belief that men were role models.
(b) The belief that men were like children.
(c) The belief that men were unimportant.
(d) The belief that all men were the enemy.

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

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

11. For the author, what must happen to feminism in order for it to have "a revolutionary, transformative impact on society"?
(a) Feminism must exclude men from the movement.
(b) People involved in feminism must reject the popular media.
(c) Feminism must become more intellectual.
(d) Feminism must become a mass-based political movement.

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

13. What would this change in language suggest?
(a) It would suggest belief and participation in social action for change, rather than a confrontational approach.
(b) It would be active rather than passive.
(c) It would affirm personal identity.
(d) It would make the idea of belonging to a movement more visible.

14. What general statement does the author make about men that may seem to contradict her other claims?
(a) All men support and perpetuate sexism and sexist oppression in one form or another.
(b) Sexism is not perpetuated by educated men.
(c) Men are no longer sexist.
(d) Most men are unable to truly support feminism.

15. Were there ever alternate reactions to black women's efforts to participate in the early feminist movement, and if so what were they?
(a) Black feminists' ideas about class were accepted, but not their ideas about race.
(b) Some white feminists rejected their ideas but most did not.
(c) Sometimes their ideas inspired new understanding and growth in the movement.
(d) Black women were always seen as a threat to the movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the author's view, is it valid to define feminism in terms of creating a sense of community?

2. What was the author's initial experience in women's groups?

3. How does the author view women's desires and attempts to be like white men?

4. What change to the language expressing involvement in feminism does the author advocate?

5. How does the author feel about defining feminism as enabling total personal freedom?

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