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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the author, what perspective really changed the direction of feminist thought?
(a) Looking at the interlocking nature of race, class, and gender.
(b) Creating women's studies departments in universities.
(c) Looking back at women's history.
(d) Accepting men into the movement.

2. Who must be retrained in order for the feminist movement to be successful?
(a) Men.
(b) White upper class men.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Men and women.

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

4. In the first chapter, how does the author characterize the perspective of the women involved in the early feminist movement?
(a) They thought working women were not true feminists.
(b) They were overly concerned with saving poor women.
(c) They saw all women as oppressed but had no real awareness of the life of a non-white, non-middle class women.
(d) Their perspective is difficult to pin down since they were from many different social backgrounds.

5. From which position (or perspective) does the author claim to write in her analysis of feminism and its social manifestations?
(a) From a religious perspective.
(b) From an elite position.
(c) From the margins.
(d) From a foreign perspective.

6. In Chapter 1, what key term does the author use to talk about the "racial politic" in the U.S.?
(a) Racial ignorance.
(b) Regression.
(c) White privilege.
(d) White supremacy.

7. According to the author, what does society often teach women about what it means to be a woman?
(a) That to be a woman is easier than being a man.
(b) That to be female is to be important.
(c) That women should be silent.
(d) That to be female is to be a victim.

8. In Chapter Four, what does the author give as the broad definition of "sisterhood" from the early feminist movement?
(a) Common religion among women.
(b) Women who share the same parents.
(c) Unity between women.
(d) Unity between working women.

9. 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.

10. Why does the author hold her particular beliefs about prioritizing struggles against different forms of prejudice?
(a) All are ultimately as destructive of society and the individual as the other.
(b) Because she is a women, she places gender issues first.
(c) She holds her views because she needs to maintain her standing in the academic community.
(d) As a black woman, she feels that race is a more pressing matter than feminism.

11. In the Preface to the second edition (2000), how does the author characterize the later reception of her work?
(a) Many people embrace her ideas but do not give her any credit for them.
(b) The people who first rejected the book came to regard the author's innovations as necessary and valuable.
(c) Women of color still feel that the author does not address their concerns.
(d) Male academics find the work too exclusive.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author view the concept of personal freedom?

2. The phrase "the problem that has no name" refers to which of the following issues?

3. In the author's view, what three things most determine a woman's destiny?

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

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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