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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What observations does the author make about women and the practice of violence?
(a) Women are more violent as teenagers.
(b) Women are actually more violent than men.
(c) Women also have a capacity for violence and many condone and advocate war.
(d) Women are essentially nonviolent by nature.

4. What is the author's main contention about work in Chapter Seven?
(a) Professors are underpaid.
(b) There needs to be better statistical data about employment.
(c) Ideas and attitudes about work must change.
(d) The government should create more jobs.

5. In the author's view, what is the result, or effect, of some successful feminists' particular relationship with power?
(a) It perpetuates the very sexism they claim to strive against.
(b) It reverses gender roles in a positive way.
(c) It makes men extremely jealous.
(d) It destroys less powerful women's chances.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. How does the author characterize early feminist concepts of sexual liberty?
(a) Freedom from sexual relations with men.
(b) A complete rejection of romantic love.
(c) She does not provide any description of such concepts.
(d) The choice to have sexual relations whenever and with whoever one desires.

15. How does the author herself feel about the slow process of change and all the work that it involves?
(a) It will take less time than most people imagine.
(b) Her generation will not see the effects of true change.
(c) It is necessary if deeply held sexist, capitalist, imperialist beliefs are to change for the long term.
(d) It is extremely discouraging and tiresome for feminists who have been involved for some time.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does consumerism relate to the author's discussion of power?

2. In the author's view, which prejudices is it important for women of color to transcend?

3. What assertion does the author make about lower and middle class women and power?

4. How does the author view the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities?

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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