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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 practice parenting.
(b) Men must be encouraged to believe that they are capable of good parenting.
(c) Men should be the breadwinners, not the caregivers.
(d) Parenting must also take place outside the home.

3. For the author, what activity would be most likely to help spread feminism and its goals to a wider cross section of women?
(a) Buying ad space on television.
(b) Promoting literacy.
(c) Printing more pamphlets.
(d) Holding town hall events.

4. What was the week point in feminists' initial view of power?
(a) They placed too much value on attaining power and not enough on its effects.
(b) They did not distinguish between power as domination and control over others and power that is creative and life-affirming.
(c) They did not realize that power was not limited to men.
(d) Their opinions were vague and lacked cohesion.

5. What is the author's opinion about the two different groups and how they function?
(a) They should learn to stand i the other groups shoes.
(b) One is more necessary to the movement than the other.
(c) Both are necessary to the movement.
(d) They need to take turns being in charge.

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

7. Why does society-the U.S. in particular-have this kind of reaction to the process of change?
(a) Because change always happens quickly in the U.S.
(b) Because it has nothing to compare this process to.
(c) Because people need constant entertainment.
(d) Because its citizens are unaccustomed to having to wait for things.

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

9. Following the author's reasoning, what does a societal trend towards women identifying with and pursuing male models of power show?
(a) That women do not necessarily experience and wield power differently from men.
(b) It does not really show us anything one way or the other.
(c) That women are just as capable as men.
(d) That women lack the ability to develop their own models.

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

11. According to the author, tensions about motherhood existed between which two schools of thought?
(a) Between feminists and civil rights activists.
(b) Between doctors and midwives.
(c) Between early feminist thinking and traditional conception of motherhood.
(d) Between Americans and Europeans.

12. How does the author present education in the title of Chapter Eight
(a) As a teen agenda.
(b) As as a class agenda.
(c) As a dilemma.
(d) As a feminist agenda.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of Chapter Ten, "Revolutionary Parenting," suggests which of the following ideas?

2. What do early feminist concepts of sexual liberty represent for the author?

3. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?

4. According to the author, in what form has feminist thought primarily been circulated?

5. Based on your overall understanding of this text, what approach is suggested by the title, Feminist Theory from Margin to Center?

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