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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Overall, what does the author think about the effects of the feminist movement?
(a) The feminist movement has not changed the educational landscape.
(b) It has created amazing changes in the lives of girls and boys, and women and men.
(c) It has not done enough to reach out to both genders.
(d) The movement has had positive effects, but mostly in the academic world.

2. What belief about men did early feminists act out, according to the author.
(a) The belief that men were unimportant.
(b) The belief that all men were the enemy.
(c) The belief that men were role models.
(d) The belief that men were like children.

3. 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 saw all women as oppressed but had no real awareness of the life of a non-white, non-middle class women.
(c) They were overly concerned with saving poor women.
(d) Their perspective is difficult to pin down since they were from many different social backgrounds.

4. The author cites Lillian Hellman's autobiography as an example of what kind of phenomenon?
(a) White women projecting mythical power and strength on black women while presenting themselves as powerless.
(b) An rare example of working class writing.
(c) White women being afraid to tell their domestic servants what to do.
(d) An early white feminist who listened to women of color.

5. What is the primary "point of contact" between the oppressor and the oppressed?
(a) The work environment.
(b) There is very little actual contact.
(c) Absence of choices.
(d) Marriage.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. According to the author, how are joint analyses of race, class, and gender seen today?
(a) They are accepted by mainstream feminism as common practice.
(b) They are still rejected by mainstream feminists as too radical.
(c) They are mostly practiced by black intellectuals.
(d) They are exclusively embraced in university settings.

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

11. "The problem that has no name" is a quotation by which author?
(a) Leah Fritz.
(b) Betty Friedan.
(c) Rita Mae Brown.
(d) Bell hooks.

12. In the author's view, is it valid to define feminism in terms of creating a sense of community?
(a) Yes, this should be part of the universal definition of feminism.
(b) The definition is too vague to be useful.
(c) She claims that non-white, lower class women, who already have a strong sense of community may not find this definition adequate.
(d) Community is something that all women lack so it is way to define feminism.

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

14. In Chapter 1, the author states that feminist theory and the feminist movement were originally shaped by which type of people?
(a) Working-class women.
(b) Middle-class white women.
(c) Expatriates living abroad.
(d) Middle-class women.

15. At the end of the Preface (2000), what does the author say regarding "patriarchal mass media" and feminism?
(a) It creates low self-esteem in feminists.
(b) It trashes feminism or tells the public it is a dead movement.
(c) It completely ignores feminism and feminists.
(d) It appropriates feminist language for its own uses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author hold her particular beliefs about prioritizing struggles against different forms of prejudice?

2. What is the main relationship discussed in Chapter 5?

3. At the end of the Preface to the second edition, where does the author maintain that a feminist path will lead us?

4. How does the author see feminism and the family?

5. In Chapter 1, what key term does the author use to talk about the "racial politic" in the U.S.?

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