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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What notion about women and power do both sexist and traditional feminist culture share?
(a) That women do not understand money.
(b) That women should not be in positions of power.
(c) That motherhood is a woman's right of passage.
(d) That women experience and wield power differently from men.

3. According to the title of Chapter Nine, what is one of the primary goals of the feminist movement?
(a) To develop a new rating system for DVDs and video games.
(b) To create a government department overseeing women's issues.
(c) To legalize prostitution.
(d) To end violence, especially against women.

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

5. Overall, what is the author's approach to presenting feminist ideas in this book?
(a) In general, she focuses on more recent developments in feminism.
(b) She presents male stereotypes about women then proceeds to refute them.
(c) She presents other people's work but rarely discusses her own ideas.
(d) Usually she presents early feminist ideas, points out their failings, and proposes alternatives.

6. Whose ideas in particular does she address?
(a) Characters on "I Love Lucy."
(b) French women.
(c) Gay men.
(d) Early feminists (i.e. white bourgeois women).

7. What ideas about parenting does the author initially discuss?
(a) Same sex couples' ideas about parenting.
(b) Parenting in American television sitcoms.
(c) Feminist ideas about parenting.
(d) European ideas of parenting.

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

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

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

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

12. 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 have lived in circumstances that required self-reliance, rather than dependency.
(c) They need further political education.
(d) They work all the time.

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

14. How should feminists behave towards consumerism, according to the author?
(a) They should focus on more important things.
(b) They can accept it as a necessary evil.
(c) They should learn aggressive marketing tactics.
(d) Buy only what is necessary and thus resist capitalist culture and its connection to sexual oppression.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For the author, what activity would be most likely to help spread feminism and its goals to a wider cross section of women?

2. In the author's view, how did early feminists understand work, i.e what did they identify as successful work?

3. Why does society-the U.S. in particular-have this kind of reaction to the process of change?

4. The title of Chapter Twelve, "Feminist Revolution: Development through Struggle," refers to which of the following ideas?

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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