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Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does consumerism relate to the author's discussion of power?
(a) Feminists should tap into consumer culture to gain power.
(b) It does not come up in her discussion at all.
(c) Combatting consumerism is a positive manifestation of women's power.
(d) Feminists should not be distracted from fighting sexism by focusing on resisting consumerism.

2. How does the author herself feel about the slow process of change and all the work that it involves?
(a) It is necessary if deeply held sexist, capitalist, imperialist beliefs are to change for the long term.
(b) It is extremely discouraging and tiresome for feminists who have been involved for some time.
(c) Her generation will not see the effects of true change.
(d) It will take less time than most people imagine.

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

4. What is the author's main contention about work in Chapter Seven?
(a) There needs to be better statistical data about employment.
(b) The government should create more jobs.
(c) Ideas and attitudes about work must change.
(d) Professors are underpaid.

5. How is violence often represented in western culture?
(a) As a symbol of life.
(b) As reprehensible, no matter who commits it.
(c) As something only practiced by villains.
(d) As sexually titillating, and even associated with love and romance.

6. How did women working for change initially view the exercise of power?
(a) As a rejection of femininity.
(b) As a luxury.
(c) As something negative.
(d) As something to strive for.

7. What has been the result of this mode of circulation?
(a) It has made feminist thought accessible to a wider range of women.
(b) It has limited participation in the movement to those who can read.
(c) It has kept feminist thought more localized, since word of mouth does not travel over large distances.
(d) It has limited access to feminist ideas to those who own televisions.

8. In addition to gender and violence, what major aspect of violence does the author discuss in this chapter?
(a) Violence in the cinema.
(b) Violence against animals.
(c) War.
(d) Parental violence.

9. What aspects of society, for example, would women be able to work towards changing if they were freed from exploitation.
(a) Politics and economics.
(b) City planning.
(c) Religion.
(d) Instituting new national holidays.

10. How does the author view housework?
(a) As creative and life-affirming-sometimes more so than work outside the home.
(b) As extremely tiring.
(c) As women's work.
(d) As demeaning.

11. Which one of the following ideas is not mentioned by the author in her discussion of how feminist-oriented change can actually come about?
(a) A concerted and sustained effort to change sexist attitudes in women.
(b) Armed struggle.
(c) An understanding of the socio-political systems that give rise to and perpetuate sexist attitudes.
(d) A concerted and sustained effort to change sexist attitudes in men.

12. Besides spreading feminism and its goals, what else would be accomplished by the action promoted by the author?
(a) The creation of new woman-owned franchises.
(b) The dispelling of stereotypes.
(c) Less boredom and frustration.
(d) A better sense of current events.

13. What change in attitudes towards work does the author propose in Chapter Seven.
(a) People need to try new career paths.
(b) From a male-dominated sphere to a woman-dominated sphere.
(c) From a purely money-oriented activity to an activity that enables, and enriches, life.
(d) Society needs to discourage too much focus on work.

14. According to the author, tensions about motherhood existed between which two schools of thought?
(a) Between early feminist thinking and traditional conception of motherhood.
(b) Between feminists and civil rights activists.
(c) Between doctors and midwives.
(d) Between Americans and Europeans.

15. Related to the issue of feminist writing, between which two groups does the author notice tension in the greater feminist movement?
(a) The tension between those who are idealistic and those who are practical.
(b) The tension between those who advocate scientific analysis and those advocating political manifestos.
(c) The tension between those who write and discuss theories and ideas and those who engage in direct activism to support the feminist movement.
(d) The tension between younger and older women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What opinion does the author express regarding the connection between early feminist concepts of sexual liberty and the movement to end sexual oppression?

2. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?

3. How should feminists behave towards consumerism, according to the author?

4. Which one of the following is true of the author beliefs about child care centers?

5. Who is affected by sexist attitudes in the author's view?

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