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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Preface to the second edition, what is the first factor considered by black parents when a child is born, according to the author?
(a) Race, then gender.
(b) Gender, then race.
(c) Race, then size.
(d) Gender, then size.

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

3. For the author, what perspective really changed the direction of feminist thought?
(a) Accepting men into the movement.
(b) Creating women's studies departments in universities.
(c) Looking at the interlocking nature of race, class, and gender.
(d) Looking back at women's history.

4. 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 of peace, freedom, and justice, without sexism or domination.
(b) To a world where sexism is kept at a minimum.
(c) To a major battle between the forces of peace and of domination.
(d) To a world where women have equality with men.

5. Overall, what does the author think about the effects of the feminist movement?
(a) It has created amazing changes in the lives of girls and boys, and women and men.
(b) The feminist movement has not changed the educational landscape.
(c) It has not done enough to reach out to both genders.
(d) The movement has had positive effects, but mostly in the academic world.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the Preface (2000), what does the author say regarding "patriarchal mass media" and feminism?

2. The author cites Lillian Hellman's autobiography as an example of what kind of phenomenon?

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

4. What did she notice about white female students at the time?

5. What is the social and racial dynamic described by the author at the beginning of the Preface to the first edition of the book?

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