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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 will take less time than most people imagine.
(c) It is extremely discouraging and tiresome for feminists who have been involved for some time.
(d) Her generation will not see the effects of true change.

2. What is the author's opinion of the early feminist belief about creating change?
(a) It was very forceful.
(b) It was not idealistic enough.
(c) It was too pessimistic.
(d) It was both idealistic and unrealistic.

3. In the author's view, how did early feminists understand work, i.e what did they identify as successful work?
(a) It was understood as related to traditionally feminine tasks.
(b) They did not yet have a clear view of what made work successful.
(c) It was identified with capitalist, patriarchal standards of success (money and power).
(d) It was identified with creative expression.

4. What has happened as a result of the form taken by the majority of feminist writing?
(a) Many uneducated women have been excluded.
(b) More women have been attracted to the movement.
(c) Many women have seen the writing as impractical.
(d) Younger women have been able to relate to feminist writing with more ease.

5. What is the author's central theory about the nature (and practice) of violence against women?
(a) It is a result of women entering the workforce in large numbers.
(b) It is an innate part of male biology.
(c) It is a manifestation and perpetuation of traditional patriarchal thought that men are powerful and women are victims.
(d) Women invite violence by the way they dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of Chapter Twelve, "Feminist Revolution: Development through Struggle," refers to which of the following ideas?

2. How does the author characterize early feminist concepts of sexual liberty?

3. What has desensitized women and men to violence in the author's view?

4. According to the title of Chapter Nine, what is one of the primary goals of the feminist movement?

5. Following the author's reasoning, what does a societal trend towards women identifying with and pursuing male models of power show?

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