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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What aspects of society, for example, would women be able to work towards changing if they were freed from exploitation.
(a) Politics and economics.
(b) City planning.
(c) Instituting new national holidays.
(d) Religion.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. How did early feminists, and society at the time, view housework?
(a) As relatively easy work.
(b) As something a woman cannot escape.
(c) As an ideal job.
(d) As demeaning.

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

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

13. In the author's view, how should the beliefs about motherhood that she discusses be dealt with?
(a) They should be taught in schools.
(b) They should be broken down and eliminated.
(c) They should be replaced by non-European beliefs.
(d) They should be embraced by new mothers.

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

15. How is violence often represented in western culture?
(a) As reprehensible, no matter who commits it.
(b) As something only practiced by villains.
(c) As a symbol of life.
(d) As sexually titillating, and even associated with love and romance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What qualities does the author promote in this final chapter on change via the feminist movement?

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

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

5. How did many lower/middle class and/or non-white women respond to this view of work?

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