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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. What is the main topic of discussion in Chapter Eleven, "Ending Female Sexual Oppression."
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Sexual harassment in the work place.
(c) Sexuality and sexual expression.
(d) Pornography.

2. According to the title of Chapter Nine, what is one of the primary goals of the feminist movement?
(a) To create a government department overseeing women's issues.
(b) To develop a new rating system for DVDs and video games.
(c) To end violence, especially against women.
(d) To legalize prostitution.

3. How does the author present education in the title of Chapter Eight
(a) As a feminist agenda.
(b) As a teen agenda.
(c) As a dilemma.
(d) As as a class agenda.

4. What assertion does the author make about lower and middle class women and power?
(a) They do not have the time to create new models of power.
(b) They have followed creative and life-affirming models of power.
(c) They have given up on attaining any power in their lives.
(d) They feel comfortable with the power hierarchy.

5. According to the author, who originally defined "sisterhood" in the feminist movement?
(a) The middle class white women at the forefront of the movement.
(b) University professors.
(c) Working class women.
(d) Young female college students in sociology classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author's Preface (2000), where is visionary feminist discourse increasingly talked about?

2. At the end of the Preface to the second edition, where does the author maintain that a feminist path will lead us?

3. For the author, what activity would be most likely to help spread feminism and its goals to a wider cross section of women?

4. Whose ideas in particular does she address?

5. In Chapter 2, what are the author's thoughts on a universally accepted definition of feminism?

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