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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. The title of Chapter Ten, "Revolutionary Parenting," suggests which of the following ideas?
(a) Parenting and technology.
(b) How activists can meet the challenges of parenting.
(c) Parenting, and attitudes toward it, must undergo major changes.
(d) Parents should homeschool their children.

2. What group of women are left out but really stand to benefit more from feminist thought?
(a) Middle class women.
(b) Housewives.
(c) College women.
(d) Illiterate women.

3. How does the author describe feminism in the U.S.?
(a) As a radical revolution.
(b) As a separatist movement.
(c) As a collective Marxist movement.
(d) As a bourgeois ideology based on liberal individualism.

4. The author opens the Preface to the first edition of the book with a description of which group and its experiences in life?
(a) Black Americans living in a small town in Kentucky.
(b) White French feminists.
(c) White upper class American women.
(d) Upper class black professionals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author characterize the aims of the feminist movement in relationship to other movements?

2. For the author, what perspective really changed the direction of feminist thought?

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

4. On what levels of culture and society is violence most likely to exist?

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

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