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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the Preface to the second edition (2000), how does the author characterize the later reception of her work?
(a) Male academics find the work too exclusive.
(b) Women of color still feel that the author does not address their concerns.
(c) The people who first rejected the book came to regard the author's innovations as necessary and valuable.
(d) Many people embrace her ideas but do not give her any credit for them.

3. What was the author's initial experience in women's groups?
(a) White women did not treat women of color as equals.
(b) She found solidarity with women from very different backgrounds.
(c) No one would look at her.
(d) Everyone was really open-minded.

4. How were black women's efforts received by white feminists?
(a) They were mostly met with resentment and derision.
(b) They were openly embraced.
(c) They were seen as disorganized.
(d) They were completely ignored.

5. At the end of the Preface to the second edition, where does the author maintain that a feminist path will lead us?
(a) To a world where sexism is kept at a minimum.
(b) To a world of peace, freedom, and justice, without sexism or domination.
(c) To a world where women have equality with men.
(d) To a major battle between the forces of peace and of domination.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the first chapter, how does the author characterize the perspective of the women involved in the early feminist movement?

3. In general, the title of Chapter 1, "Black Women - Shaping Feminist Theory," relates to which of the following ideas?

4. From which position (or perspective) does the author claim to write in her analysis of feminism and its social manifestations?

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

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