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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?
(a) Encouraging women to challenge their male professors.
(b) Encouraging women to strive for education and develop their intellects.
(c) Encouraging women not to get lose sight of their families in their quest for an education.
(d) Encouraging women to take more business classes.

3. The title of Chapter Ten, "Revolutionary Parenting," suggests which of the following ideas?
(a) Parenting, and attitudes toward it, must undergo major changes.
(b) How activists can meet the challenges of parenting.
(c) Parents should homeschool their children.
(d) Parenting and technology.

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

5. Related to the issue of feminist writing, between which two groups does the author notice tension in the greater feminist movement?
(a) The tension between those who are idealistic and those who are practical.
(b) The tension between younger and older women.
(c) The tension between those who write and discuss theories and ideas and those who engage in direct activism to support the feminist movement.
(d) The tension between those who advocate scientific analysis and those advocating political manifestos.

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

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

8. How should feminists behave towards consumerism, according to the author?
(a) They can accept it as a necessary evil.
(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 should learn aggressive marketing tactics.

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

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

11. Which of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of long accepted views of motherhood?
(a) The home is the only place where good parenting can occur.
(b) Women should not nurse in public.
(c) It is a woman's unique gift and should be held sacred.
(d) The mother is the only parent capable of good parenting.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How did women working for change initially view the exercise of power?

5. How does the author herself feel about the slow process of change and all the work that it involves?

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