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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What change in attitudes towards work does the author propose in Chapter Seven.
(a) From a purely money-oriented activity to an activity that enables, and enriches, life.
(b) People need to try new career paths.
(c) Society needs to discourage too much focus on work.
(d) From a male-dominated sphere to a woman-dominated sphere.

2. How did many lower/middle class and/or non-white women respond to this view of work?
(a) They agreed with it.
(b) They wanted more discussion of career possibilities.
(c) It alienated them from feminism.
(d) Work was not part of their list of concerns at the time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does the author view housework?
(a) As women's work.
(b) As extremely tiring.
(c) As creative and life-affirming-sometimes more so than work outside the home.
(d) As demeaning.

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

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

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

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

14. How did the group initially discussed by the author characterize parenthood?
(a) As a social duty to create future citizens.
(b) As a trap, another way the male patriarchy exercised its power.
(c) As a form of discipline.
(d) As a luxury.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the early feminist belief about creating change according to the author?

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

3. What was the week point in feminists' initial view of power?

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

5. Related to the issue of feminist writing, between which two groups does the author notice tension in the greater feminist movement?

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