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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of the biggest challenges to sisterhood?
(a) There used to be challenges but they have lessened.
(b) Racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism.
(c) Global warming, politics, and religion.
(d) Unfair business practices.

2. In the Preface, which four factors are most central to the author's argument about a person's position in society?
(a) Height, gender, income, and place of birth.
(b) Race, gender, income, and education.
(c) Race, weight, gender, and marital status.
(d) Education, political beliefs, place of birth, and family name.

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

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

5. 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 an honorable and uplifting concept.
(c) It is grounded in preserving the patriarchal, capitalist, individualist status quo.
(d) It runs the risk of promoting sexual infidelity.

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

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

8. According to the author, in Chapter 1, "Black Women - Shaping Feminist Theory," what were black feminists initially trying to do in the feminist movement?
(a) Make new friends.
(b) To get more work.
(c) To expand the basis of feminist thought.
(d) Be more like white feminists.

9. According to the author, challenges to to sisterhood can exist between white women and women of color; between which other groups does she say that they can exist?
(a) Challenges to sisterhood do not really occur between other groups of women.
(b) Between different groups of non-white women, women of different classes and/or races/ethnicities, and women of different sexual orientations.
(c) Between women from different universities.
(d) Only between women from different social classes.

10. What change to the language expressing involvement in feminism does the author advocate?
(a) Change "I am a feminist" to "I advocate feminism."
(b) Change "I am a feminist" to "I support the feminist movement."
(c) Change "I advocate feminism" to "I am a feminist."
(d) Change "I advocate feminism" to "I support the feminist movement."

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

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

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

14. The author states that most women would like to be like ________________.
(a) their mothers.
(b) their mentors.
(c) white men.
(d) their best friends.

15. For the author, what is a better way to arrive at a definition of sisterhood?
(a) The movement does not need a definition of sisterhood.
(b) By finding out which men are truly oppressive.
(c) Through sustained debate.
(d) Through solidarity in the face of all forms of oppression.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What general statement does the author make about men that may seem to contradict her other claims?

3. What is the author's contention about the feelings that defined sisterhood?

4. In the Preface to the second edition (2000), how does the author characterize the later reception of her work?

5. What would this change in language suggest?

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