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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What has desensitized women and men to violence in the author's view?
(a) She does not feel that women have become desensitized to violence.
(b) Its prevalence in the media.
(c) Their families.
(d) Its use in everyday language.

4. Who has portrayed the relationship between feminism and the family in this way? (See question # 61)
(a) All men.
(b) Outsiders to the movement and sometimes feminists in the movement who want to create women-only communities.
(c) The child protective services.
(d) Most feminists hold this view.

5. In the author's view, which prejudices is it important for women of color to transcend?
(a) Prejudices against academics and/or intellectuals.
(b) Prejudices against rich women.
(c) Prejudices against their mothers' generation.
(d) Prejudices against illiterate women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can happen to women in light of the social views about their gender?

2. The author expresses how feminism reacts to "a political system of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy;" how does she view the state of our society today?

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

4. Which one of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of strategies for dealing with accepted beliefs about motherhood?

5. How does the author see feminism and the family?

(see the answer key)

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