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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is violence truly a manifestation of for the author?
(a) Imperialism, power, and a hierarchy of control.
(b) Sexual inadequacy.
(c) Hatred of women, especially the mother.
(d) Insecurity.

2. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?
(a) Encouraging women to challenge their male professors.
(b) Encouraging women to strive for education and develop their intellects.
(c) Encouraging women not to get lose sight of their families in their quest for an education.
(d) Encouraging women to take more business classes.

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

4. The title of Chapter Twelve, "Feminist Revolution: Development through Struggle," refers to which of the following ideas?
(a) The feminist revolution will only be won via armed struggle.
(b) That feminist-oriented change is achieved through perseverance and hard work.
(c) Feminists create change by holding serious debates.
(d) That the feminist movement must struggle for the benefit of developing countries.

5. In the author's opinion, how did early feminists view violence against women?
(a) They saw men as corrupt and women as innately innocent.
(b) They thought that gender was not really at play in problems of violence.
(c) They frowned on discussing violence at all.
(d) In a way, they echoed patriarchal ideas that men had inbred aggressive tendencies and women had submissive and nurturing tendencies.

6. What has been the result of this mode of circulation?
(a) It has limited participation in the movement to those who can read.
(b) It has made feminist thought accessible to a wider range of women.
(c) It has limited access to feminist ideas to those who own televisions.
(d) It has kept feminist thought more localized, since word of mouth does not travel over large distances.

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

8. Which of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of long accepted views of motherhood?
(a) The mother is the only parent capable of good parenting.
(b) Women should not nurse in public.
(c) It is a woman's unique gift and should be held sacred.
(d) The home is the only place where good parenting can occur.

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

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

11. How does the author view the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities?
(a) As a disappointment.
(b) As an ideal kind of power.
(c) As an imitation of patriarchal models of power
(d) As a new form of slavery.

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

13. What does the author suggest about many successful feminists and their relationship with power?
(a) They try to dominate men.
(b) They develop an inferiority complex.
(c) They embody and/or capitalize upon male definitions of power and success.
(d) They become power hungry to the point of fanaticism.

14. What was the early feminist belief about creating change according to the author?
(a) It would happen once women took over the media.
(b) That change would not take place for another generation.
(c) That armed resistance was the only way to achieve true change.
(d) That demanding necessary change and pointing out areas for that change would be enough to make it happen.

15. In Chapter Six, what does the author claim women active in feminist movement have been ambivalent about?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Sex.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What ideas about parenting does the author initially discuss?

3. What can the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities enable them to do?

4. In her discussion of attitudes towards sexuality, what common problem does the author say that women and gay men share?

5. According to the author, tensions about motherhood existed between which two schools of thought?

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