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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main relationship discussed in Chapter 5?
(a) The relationship between women and technology.
(b) The relationship between senior women and feminism.
(c) The relationship between feminism and civil rights
(d) The relationship between men and the feminist movement.

2. Based on your understanding of the two Prefaces, who does the author wish to reach with her work?
(a) Women of color.
(b) Mainly people who are brand new to feminism.
(c) As wide and diverse of an audience as possible.
(d) Men.

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

4. In Chapter 3, "The Significance of Feminist Movement," the author discusses which of the following themes?
(a) Famous personalities within the feminist movement.
(b) The potential social and political benefits of the feminist movement.
(c) The major shortcomings of the feminist movement.
(d) The effects of feminism on foreign policy.

5. According to the author, challenges to to sisterhood can exist between white women and women of color; between which other groups does she say that they can exist?
(a) Only between women from different social classes.
(b) Between women from different universities.
(c) Challenges to sisterhood do not really occur between other groups of women.
(d) Between different groups of non-white women, women of different classes and/or races/ethnicities, and women of different sexual orientations.

6. Were there ever alternate reactions to black women's efforts to participate in the early feminist movement, and if so what were they?
(a) Sometimes their ideas inspired new understanding and growth in the movement.
(b) Black feminists' ideas about class were accepted, but not their ideas about race.
(c) Some white feminists rejected their ideas but most did not.
(d) Black women were always seen as a threat to the movement.

7. From which position (or perspective) does the author claim to write in her analysis of feminism and its social manifestations?
(a) From a foreign perspective.
(b) From an elite position.
(c) From a religious perspective.
(d) From the margins.

8. In the author's view, what three things most determine a woman's destiny?
(a) Her race, her gender, and who she marries.
(b) Her alma mater, her first job, and who she marries.
(c) Who she marries, her appearance, and her family name.
(d) Gender, race, and class.

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

10. What are some of the biggest challenges to sisterhood?
(a) There used to be challenges but they have lessened.
(b) Global warming, politics, and religion.
(c) Racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism.
(d) Unfair business practices.

11. What major difference between white and black men does the author point out?
(a) Black men did not trust women who worked outside the home.
(b) Black men were not as threatened by strong women functioning outside traditional gender roles.
(c) White men encouraged women to go to work whereas black men did not.
(d) White men were not as threatened by strong women functioning outside traditional gender roles.

12. How does the author feel about defining feminism as enabling total personal freedom?
(a) She finds the definition to vague.
(b) She sees this as the most favorable definition of feminism.
(c) She thinks it is immoral.
(d) She sees it as very limiting for women since it is a male-defined model.

13. In the Preface (2000), what examples does the author give of the problematic status of women in contemporary society?
(a) Low job benefits, high poverty, high divorce rates.
(b) High poverty, low status of single mothers, lack of state assistance and health care.
(c) High poverty, high divorce rates, lack of state assistance.
(d) High divorce rates, low job benefits, no enough day care.

14. How does the author describe the family in "Western society"?
(a) It is no longer the primary social unit.
(b) For centuries it has been dominated by a sexist, patriarchal, authoritarian model.
(c) Television has destroyed family relationships.
(d) The Western family is based on nurturing and equality.

15. What potential effect can feminism have on the family, in the author's view?
(a) It can help maintain the traditional structure of the Western family.
(b) It can draw attention away from the family towards more important things.
(c) It can undermine family stability.
(d) It can transform the family in very positive ways.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe Betty Friedan in Chapter 1?

2. How does the author view women's desires and attempts to be like white men?

3. What was the shared feeling that helped define sisterhood in the early years of the movement, according to the author?

4. According to the author, how are joint analyses of race, class, and gender seen today?

5. Which definition of feminism does not work, according to the author?

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