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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author characterize the aims of the feminist movement in relationship to other movements?
(a) The feminist movements aims and intentions are interwoven with those struggling against classism, racism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppression..
(b) There is a relationship between feminism and the struggle against ageism, but that is all.
(c) The aims and goals of the feminist movement are really separate from other movements.
(d) Feminists should stay focused on their own goals and not look to other movements.

2. 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) Between different groups of non-white women, women of different classes and/or races/ethnicities, and women of different sexual orientations.
(b) Challenges to sisterhood do not really occur between other groups of women.
(c) Only between women from different social classes.
(d) Between women from different universities.

3. In the title of Chapter Five, what term is used to describe men's relationship to the feminist movement.
(a) The oppressor.
(b) Comrades in struggle.
(c) Enemy number one.
(d) Friends of the cause.

4. How does the author support her claims about the reception of black women's efforts in the early feminist movement?
(a) She presents a series of interviews that she conducted.
(b) She cites anecdotal evidence based on personal experience.
(c) She does not support her claims with evidence.
(d) She presents statistical research.

5. The phrase "the problem that has no name" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) Women's fears of aging.
(b) Women and schizophrenia.
(c) The psychological malaise of all women in American society due to gender roles.
(d) Hating one's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that most women would like to be like ________________.

2. As stated in the 1984 Preface, what is the primary weakness of feminist theory that the author promises to address in her book?

3. In the Preface (2000), what examples does the author give of the problematic status of women in contemporary society?

4. According to the author, who originally defined "sisterhood" in the feminist movement?

5. According to the author, what does society often teach women about what it means to be a woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the experience of many non-white and lower class women working outside the home?

2. In the 2000 Preface is the author's attitude towards change in the feminist movement positive or negative, and what examples does she give?

3. In the author's view, are feminists ambivalent about power?

4. Describe the author's views of how modern western cultures deal with the process of change.

5. In Chapter Eight, "Educating Women - A Feminist Agenda," what does the author encourage black women to do regarding education and academic work?

6. List several other critiques of violence that the author offers.

7. What is unique about black women's perspectives?

8. What is the author's view of feminism as a social movement in the Preface to the First Edition (1984)? What kind of movement does it need to be and why?

9. In Chapter Eleven, why does the author disagree with early feminist concepts of sexual liberty?

10. How are traditional patriarchal concepts of gender related to violence against women?

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