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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In her discussion of attitudes towards sexuality, what common problem does the author say that women and gay men share?
(a) People accuse them of whining.
(b) They both need better spokespeople for their movements.
(c) Their situations are totally dissimilar.
(d) They share similar oppressions in that neither fit the ideal model of male heterosexuality.

2. 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) Expatriates living abroad.
(c) Middle-class white women.
(d) Middle-class women.

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

4. How does consumerism relate to the author's discussion of power?
(a) It does not come up in her discussion at all.
(b) Combatting consumerism is a positive manifestation of women's power.
(c) Feminists should not be distracted from fighting sexism by focusing on resisting consumerism.
(d) Feminists should tap into consumer culture to gain power.

5. What do early feminist concepts of sexual liberty represent for the author?
(a) A more practical approach to sex.
(b) She does not say what they represent for her.
(c) A chance to finally be free from male desires.
(d) Another manifestation of women adopting male-defined, heterosexist attitudes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities enable them to do?

3. How is violence often represented in western culture?

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

5. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?

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