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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author characterize the aims of the feminist movement in relationship to other movements?
(a) Feminists should stay focused on their own goals and not look to other movements.
(b) There is a relationship between feminism and the struggle against ageism, but that is all.
(c) The feminist movements aims and intentions are interwoven with those struggling against classism, racism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppression..
(d) The aims and goals of the feminist movement are really separate from other movements.

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

3. For the author, which two main terms had been left out of feminist discussions when she first published her book?
(a) Race and class.
(b) Genetics and the role of the family.
(c) Gender and race.
(d) Class and marital status.

4. What assertion does the author make (once again) about who benefits from the current feminist movement?
(a) Only women will benefit from the movement.
(b) Children will benefit, but not the current generation.
(c) She states that white middle class women stand to benefit more than anyone else.
(d) It can, and will, benefit people of both genders and all ages.

5. What is the definition of feminism proposed by the author?
(a) Feminism should be understood as total personal freedom for everyone.
(b) Feminism must be defined as community before anything else.
(c) Everyone should develop her own definition of feminism.
(d) The struggle to end sexist oppression in all its forms, whether economic, political, social, or sexual.

6. 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) Desegregation: Blacks were finally able to go wherever they wanted.
(b) Segregation: Black people could enter parts of the white people's world, but they could not stay there.
(c) The author does not discuss race until the end of the Preface.
(d) Upward mobility: Blacks strove to imitate whites and climb the social ladder.

7. What potential effect can feminism have on the family, in the author's view?
(a) It can help maintain the traditional structure of the Western family.
(b) It can undermine family stability.
(c) It can draw attention away from the family towards more important things.
(d) It can transform the family in very positive ways.

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

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

10. How does the author describe the family in "Western society"?
(a) The Western family is based on nurturing and equality.
(b) For centuries it has been dominated by a sexist, patriarchal, authoritarian model.
(c) It is no longer the primary social unit.
(d) Television has destroyed family relationships.

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

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

13. In general, the title of Chapter 1, "Black Women - Shaping Feminist Theory," relates to which of the following ideas?
(a) Black women are important in shaping the feminist movement and broadening the previously limited perspectives in feminism.
(b) It doesn't relate to any of the aforementioned ideas.
(c) Black women can create their own feminist theory; they do not need to participate in the broader movement.
(d) Black women's lives can serve as raw material for white women when they create feminist theory.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What name did early feminists use to describe radical, or revolutionary, feminists?

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

3. For the author, what is a better way to arrive at a definition of sisterhood?

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

5. In the Preface, which four factors are most central to the author's argument about a person's position in society?

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