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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of strategies for dealing with accepted beliefs about motherhood?
(a) Parenting must also take place outside the home.
(b) Men must be encouraged to believe that they are capable of good parenting.
(c) Men must be encouraged to practice parenting.
(d) Men should be the breadwinners, not the caregivers.

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

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

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

5. How did women working for change initially view the exercise of power?
(a) As a rejection of femininity.
(b) As something negative.
(c) As something to strive for.
(d) As a luxury.

6. 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) Printing more pamphlets.
(c) Holding town hall events.
(d) Promoting literacy.

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

8. What group of women are left out but really stand to benefit more from feminist thought?
(a) Illiterate women.
(b) Housewives.
(c) Middle class women.
(d) College women.

9. What opinion does the author express regarding the connection between early feminist concepts of sexual liberty and the movement to end sexual oppression?
(a) They are very closely related.
(b) They are not the same thing.
(c) She does not express an opinion but promises to discuss them together in a later book.
(d) She feels they should not be the target of conservative thinkers.

10. In the author's view, how did early feminists understand work, i.e what did they identify as successful work?
(a) It was understood as related to traditionally feminine tasks.
(b) They did not yet have a clear view of what made work successful.
(c) It was identified with capitalist, patriarchal standards of success (money and power).
(d) It was identified with creative expression.

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

12. Which one of the following ideas is not mentioned by the author in her discussion of how feminist-oriented change can actually come about?
(a) Armed struggle.
(b) A concerted and sustained effort to change sexist attitudes in women.
(c) A concerted and sustained effort to change sexist attitudes in men.
(d) An understanding of the socio-political systems that give rise to and perpetuate sexist attitudes.

13. What do early feminist concepts of sexual liberty represent for the author?
(a) A chance to finally be free from male desires.
(b) She does not say what they represent for her.
(c) Another manifestation of women adopting male-defined, heterosexist attitudes.
(d) A more practical approach to sex.

14. 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.

15. What has desensitized women and men to violence in the author's view?
(a) Their families.
(b) She does not feel that women have become desensitized to violence.
(c) Its prevalence in the media.
(d) Its use in everyday language.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the author's view, how should the beliefs about motherhood that she discusses be dealt with?

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

3. Overall, what is the author's approach to presenting feminist ideas in this book?

4. In the author's view, what is the result, or effect, of some successful feminists' particular relationship with power?

5. How does the author characterize the majority of feminist writing?

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