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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the author's view, how did early feminists understand work, i.e what did they identify as successful work?
(a) It was identified with capitalist, patriarchal standards of success (money and power).
(b) It was identified with creative expression.
(c) It was understood as related to traditionally feminine tasks.
(d) They did not yet have a clear view of what made work successful.

2. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?
(a) They have met with a lot of defeat.
(b) They work all the time.
(c) They need further political education.
(d) They have lived in circumstances that required self-reliance, rather than dependency.

3. What was the week point in feminists' initial view of power?
(a) Their opinions were vague and lacked cohesion.
(b) They did not realize that power was not limited to men.
(c) They placed too much value on attaining power and not enough on its effects.
(d) They did not distinguish between power as domination and control over others and power that is creative and life-affirming.

4. For the author, what is a better way to arrive at a definition of sisterhood?
(a) By finding out which men are truly oppressive.
(b) Through solidarity in the face of all forms of oppression.
(c) The movement does not need a definition of sisterhood.
(d) Through sustained debate.

5. What change in attitudes towards work does the author propose in Chapter Seven.
(a) People need to try new career paths.
(b) From a male-dominated sphere to a woman-dominated sphere.
(c) Society needs to discourage too much focus on work.
(d) From a purely money-oriented activity to an activity that enables, and enriches, life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspects of society, for example, would women be able to work towards changing if they were freed from exploitation.

2. What was the author's initial experience in women's groups?

3. Why does the author spend time talking about the relationship between feminism and the family?

4. According to the author, challenges to to sisterhood can exist between white women and women of color; between which other groups does she say that they can exist?

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

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