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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which one of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of strategies for dealing with accepted beliefs about motherhood?
(a) Parenting must also take place outside the home.
(b) Men must be encouraged to practice parenting.
(c) Men should be the breadwinners, not the caregivers.
(d) Men must be encouraged to believe that they are capable of good parenting.

4. On what levels of culture and society is violence most likely to exist?
(a) Mostly between countries at war.
(b) On all levels: family, community, government, international relations, etc.
(c) The author does not make a statement one way or the other.
(d) Mostly on the interpersonal level.

5. For the author, if "we" are to transform our present reality, what must happen?
(a) We must embrace our enemies.
(b) We cannot truly change out present reality without creating complete chaos.
(c) The world we most intimately know and feel safe in must end.
(d) We must elect a female president.

6. Why did many lower/middle class and/or non-white women respond to early feminist views on work as they did?
(a) They were already working and new it was not the ideal situation that others imagined.
(b) They felt that the work they wanted would never be available.
(c) They wanted to be included in the movement.
(d) They hoped to create strategies for career advancement.

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

8. What will happen if people follow the course of action regarding beliefs about motherhood proposed by the author?
(a) It will help new mothers to carry on traditions.
(b) It will help children learn about motherhood.
(c) It will help to eliminate systemic sexism.
(d) It will expose others to non-western cultural perspectives.

9. How did early feminists, and society at the time, view housework?
(a) As demeaning.
(b) As something a woman cannot escape.
(c) As relatively easy work.
(d) As an ideal job.

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

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

12. What opinion does the author express regarding the connection between early feminist concepts of sexual liberty and the movement to end sexual oppression?
(a) They are not the same thing.
(b) She feels they should not be the target of conservative thinkers.
(c) They are very closely related.
(d) She does not express an opinion but promises to discuss them together in a later book.

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

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

15. How did early (upper middle class, white) feminists regard work?
(a) They felt it was less important than education.
(b) They saw it as an added burden to the childcare they were already doing.
(c) Work outside the home was equated with freedom from male oppression.
(d) They wanted to work but did not want to compete with men in the professions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What change in attitudes towards work does the author propose in Chapter Seven.

2. Whose ideas in particular does she address?

3. Which of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of long accepted views of motherhood?

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

5. Overall, what is the author's approach to presenting feminist ideas in this book?

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