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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 men.
(b) An understanding of the socio-political systems that give rise to and perpetuate sexist attitudes.
(c) Armed struggle.
(d) A concerted and sustained effort to change sexist attitudes in women.

2. According to the author, in what form has feminist thought primarily been circulated?
(a) By word of mouth.
(b) Via the radio.
(c) Through television commercials.
(d) Via the written word (e.g. books, pamphlets, etc.).

3. Following the author's reasoning, what does a societal trend towards women identifying with and pursuing male models of power show?
(a) That women lack the ability to develop their own models.
(b) It does not really show us anything one way or the other.
(c) That women are just as capable as men.
(d) That women do not necessarily experience and wield power differently from men.

4. In the author's opinion, how did early feminists view violence against women?
(a) In a way, they echoed patriarchal ideas that men had inbred aggressive tendencies and women had submissive and nurturing tendencies.
(b) They thought that gender was not really at play in problems of violence.
(c) They frowned on discussing violence at all.
(d) They saw men as corrupt and women as innately innocent.

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

6. How did many lower/middle class and/or non-white women respond to this view of work?
(a) They wanted more discussion of career possibilities.
(b) Work was not part of their list of concerns at the time.
(c) They agreed with it.
(d) It alienated them from feminism.

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

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

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) Religion.
(c) City planning.
(d) Instituting new national holidays.

10. How does the author characterize the majority of feminist writing?
(a) As accessible to most literate women.
(b) As intellectual, academic and/or theoretical.
(c) As naive and uncritical.
(d) As utopian.

11. What do these accepted beliefs about motherhood manifest for the author?
(a) Liberal thought.
(b) Ingrained sexist thought.
(c) Television narratives.
(d) Groundbreaking theories of motherhood.

12. What qualities does the author promote in this final chapter on change via the feminist movement?
(a) Patience and submission.
(b) Aggression and intellectual aptitude.
(c) Patience and active struggle.
(d) Suspicion and perseverance.

13. Which of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of long accepted views of motherhood?
(a) The mother is the only parent capable of good parenting.
(b) The home is the only place where good parenting can occur.
(c) Women should not nurse in public.
(d) It is a woman's unique gift and should be held sacred.

14. Who is affected by sexist attitudes in the author's view?
(a) Both men and women.
(b) Gay men.
(c) Women.
(d) No one.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen if people follow the course of action regarding beliefs about motherhood proposed by the author?

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

3. What is violence truly a manifestation of for the author?

4. How did women working for change initially view the exercise of power?

5. What was the week point in feminists' initial view of power?

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