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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?
(a) Encouraging women not to get lose sight of their families in their quest for an education.
(b) Encouraging women to take more business classes.
(c) Encouraging women to strive for education and develop their intellects.
(d) Encouraging women to challenge their male professors.

2. How is the long and painstaking process of change experienced by societies like the United States?
(a) As frustrating but entertaining.
(b) As boring.
(c) As foreign, unappealing, and frustrating.
(d) As relatively easy.

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

4. Which elements define the ideal family for the author?
(a) Order, unity, respect, and fairness.
(b) Unity, modesty, and communication.
(c) Support, respect, unity and community.
(d) Order, respect, and privacy.

5. According to the author, how did early feminists see gender?
(a) As less important than race.
(b) As less important than class.
(c) As the sole determinant of a woman's fate.
(d) As a form of empowerment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author's contention about the feelings that defined sisterhood?

2. In the title of Chapter Five, what term is used to describe men's relationship to the feminist movement.

3. What must happen in order for women to create true sisterhood?

4. What ideas about parenting does the author initially discuss?

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

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