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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Based on your understanding of the two Prefaces, who does the author wish to reach with her work?
(a) As wide and diverse of an audience as possible.
(b) Women of color.
(c) Men.
(d) Mainly people who are brand new to feminism.

2. For the author, what must happen to feminism in order for it to have "a revolutionary, transformative impact on society"?
(a) Feminism must become a mass-based political movement.
(b) People involved in feminism must reject the popular media.
(c) Feminism must become more intellectual.
(d) Feminism must exclude men from the movement.

3. How does the author characterize the aims of the feminist movement in relationship to other movements?
(a) The feminist movements aims and intentions are interwoven with those struggling against classism, racism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppression..
(b) The aims and goals of the feminist movement are really separate from other movements.
(c) Feminists should stay focused on their own goals and not look to other movements.
(d) There is a relationship between feminism and the struggle against ageism, but that is all.

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

5. How does the author feel about defining feminism as enabling total personal freedom?
(a) She sees it as very limiting for women since it is a male-defined model.
(b) She sees this as the most favorable definition of feminism.
(c) She finds the definition to vague.
(d) She thinks it is immoral.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What potential effect can feminism have on the family, in the author's view?

3. What major difference between white and black men does the author point out?

4. According to the author, how did early feminists see gender?

5. What must happen in order for women to create true sisterhood?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter Three, "The Significance of the Feminist Movement" how does the author describe her understanding of feminism and the family?

3. In the Preface to the Second Edition (January 2000) entitled "Seeing the Light: Visionary Feminism," what does the author have to say about her specific approach to feminism and the reactions it created?

4. In the 2000 Preface is the author's attitude towards change in the feminist movement positive or negative, and what examples does she give?

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

6. The title of Chapter Seven, "Rethinking the Nature of Work," suggests that ideas about work must change; what changes does the author propose?

7. Are sexual liberty and "ending sexual oppression" the same thing for the author?

8. In the author's view, are feminists ambivalent about power?

9. Is the author clear about her position on women who define feminism as seeking equality with men?

10. In Chapter Seven, "Rethinking the Nature of Work," why does the author take issue with early feminist attitudes toward work?

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