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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, how has the relationship between feminism and the family often been portrayed?
(a) Feminism is often perceived as pro-family.
(b) Feminism has often been portrayed as anti-family and pro-freedom.
(c) The family is accepted as a necessary evil.
(d) Feminism does not seem to address this issue very clearly.

2. How does the author describe Betty Friedan in Chapter 1?
(a) As a creative genius who was misunderstood.
(b) As a major proponent of integration within the feminist movement.
(c) As a marginal woman who rose to prominence.
(d) As the author of a seminal feminist work whose theories have a white, middle-class bias.

3. 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) Working class and non-white men must learn to reject capitalist patriarchy.
(c) Everyone must learn to not accept and/or live according to traditional sexist attitudes.
(d) Men must learn non-violence.

4. What does it ultimately mean for the author when women behave like white men?
(a) It means that there are more white men, i.e. there is no new definition of humanity.
(b) It means that these women are creating a more successful life.
(c) It's an important sign of the sexual revolution.
(d) It means that they are traitors to their gender.

5. How does the author describe feminism in the U.S.?
(a) As a radical revolution.
(b) As a collective Marxist movement.
(c) As a separatist movement.
(d) As a bourgeois ideology based on liberal individualism.

6. What was the shared feeling that helped define sisterhood in the early years of the movement, according to the author?
(a) A love of adventure.
(b) A sense of victimization.
(c) Desire for greater affluence.
(d) Artistic inspiration.

7. What is the social and racial dynamic described by the author at the beginning of the Preface to the first edition of the book?
(a) The author does not discuss race until the end of the Preface.
(b) Segregation: Black people could enter parts of the white people's world, but they could not stay there.
(c) Desegregation: Blacks were finally able to go wherever they wanted.
(d) Upward mobility: Blacks strove to imitate whites and climb the social ladder.

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

9. How does the author view women's desires and attempts to be like white men?
(a) She believes that it is the only way fro women to gain credibility and power in society.
(b) She thinks that it is acceptable for white women but not for black women.
(c) She disagrees strongly with this definition of feminism because it sustains the current patriarchal system.
(d) She refrains from commenting because she doesn't want to appear judgmental.

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

11. What must happen in order for women to create true sisterhood?
(a) Women must learn to explore, understand, and communicate their individual experiences.
(b) Women must all agree on a single definition of sisterhood.
(c) Women must decide to get a formal education.
(d) Women must learn to organize politically.

12. How does the author propose to prioritize the struggles against various forms of prejudice?
(a) Feminists should focus on gender issues first and then address problems like classism.
(b) Feminists should look to their community leaders for guidance on how to prioritize their actions against different forms of prejudice.
(c) People should prioritize whatever prejudice is most relevant to their lives.
(d) She does not think that prejudices can be prioritized one over the other.

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

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

15. 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) She claims that non-white, lower class women, who already have a strong sense of community may not find this definition adequate.
(c) Community is something that all women lack so it is way to define feminism.
(d) Yes, this should be part of the universal definition of feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Four, what does the author give as the broad definition of "sisterhood" from the early feminist movement?

2. In the Preface to the second edition (2000), how does the author describe the original reception of her book?

3. How does the author characterize black women's future role in the feminist movement?

4. How are black and white men the same in the author's view?

5. In general, the title of Chapter 1, "Black Women - Shaping Feminist Theory," relates to which of the following ideas?

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