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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) It can, and will, benefit people of both genders and all ages.
(d) She states that white middle class women stand to benefit more than anyone else.

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

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

4. In the author's view, what three things most determine a woman's destiny?
(a) Gender, race, and class.
(b) Her race, her gender, and who she marries.
(c) Her alma mater, her first job, and who she marries.
(d) Who she marries, her appearance, and her family name.

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

6. What major difference between white and black men does the author point out?
(a) White men encouraged women to go to work whereas black men did not.
(b) Black men did not trust women who worked outside the home.
(c) Black men were not as threatened by strong women functioning outside traditional gender roles.
(d) White men were not as threatened by strong women functioning outside traditional gender roles.

7. Which elements define the ideal family for the author?
(a) Order, respect, and privacy.
(b) Unity, modesty, and communication.
(c) Support, respect, unity and community.
(d) Order, unity, respect, and fairness.

8. In the Preface to the first edition (1984), what general theme does the author present?
(a) A history of the feminist movement.
(b) Her ideas about high school education for girls.
(c) The central theory of her work.
(d) Her mother's life story.

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

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

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) 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.

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

13. In Chapter 2, what are the author's thoughts on a universally accepted definition of feminism?
(a) She thinks that the current definition is already adequate and people should focus on more important matters.s
(b) She doesn't understand why it is so difficult for people to agree on a universal definition..
(c) She does not see the relevance in trying to find a universally accepted definition.
(d) She says that it continues to be difficult to find a universally accepted definition.

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

15. 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) As a black woman, she feels that race is a more pressing matter than feminism.
(d) She holds her views because she needs to maintain her standing in the academic community.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first chapter, how does the author characterize the perspective of the women involved in the early feminist movement?

2. What were black women mostly encouraged to talk about in the early days of the feminist movement.

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

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

5. In the Preface to the first edition (1984), which two key terms in her analysis does the author introduce?

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