View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were black women mostly encouraged to talk about in the early days of the feminist movement.
(a) Class and privilege.
(b) Feminist theory.
(c) Race.
(d) Race, class. and gender.

2. 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 collective Marxist movement.
(d) As a radical revolution.

3. What do feminists need to consider when examining their beliefs about men?
(a) How lower and working class men and non-white men are also oppressed.
(b) Whether or not men deserve to be included in feminism.
(c) Whether it is safe to alter their beliefs about men.
(d) How often men use sexist language.

4. In the title of Chapter Five, what term is used to describe men's relationship to the feminist movement.
(a) Enemy number one.
(b) Comrades in struggle.
(c) The oppressor.
(d) Friends of the cause.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author opens the Preface to the first edition of the book with a description of which group and its experiences in life?

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

3. How has the author's own perception of her book held up?

4. In Chapter 1, the author states that feminist theory and the feminist movement were originally shaped by which type of people?

5. What is the definition of feminism proposed by the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the kind of power that the author sees in communities of economically disadvantaged women.

2. Do early feminists beliefs about violence support traditional patriarchal concepts of gender?

3. Is there a note of caution in the author's tone regarding the extent to which the system of power has actually changed? Where?

4. How does the title of Chapter One, "Black Women - Shaping Feminist Theory," relate to the content of the chapter?

5. Why is educating women a "feminist agenda," as the title to Chapter Eight suggests?

6. Does the author encourage a particular attitude towards manifesting change?

7. Does the author mention different branches of the feminist movement in Chapter Eight, and if so what kind of relationship do they have?

8. What is the traditional view on motherhood that the author relates in Chapter Ten?

9. What is unique about black women's perspectives?

10. Does the author offer her own definition of feminism in Chapter Two, and if so, what is it?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 839 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample