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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What can the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities enable them to do?
(a) It will enable them to keep their jobs.
(b) It enables them to reinforce the patriarchal model of power.
(c) It can enable them to resist exploitation, freeing them to transform society for the better.
(d) It will not enable them to change anything.

5. 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) It was identified with capitalist, patriarchal standards of success (money and power).
(c) They did not yet have a clear view of what made work successful.
(d) It was identified with creative expression.

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

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

8. 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) Work outside the home was equated with freedom from male oppression.
(c) They saw it as an added burden to the childcare they were already doing.
(d) They felt it was less important than education.

9. What is the author's central theory about the nature (and practice) of violence against women?
(a) It is an innate part of male biology.
(b) It is a result of women entering the workforce in large numbers.
(c) It is a manifestation and perpetuation of traditional patriarchal thought that men are powerful and women are victims.
(d) Women invite violence by the way they dress.

10. In the author's opinion, how did early feminists view violence against women?
(a) They saw men as corrupt and women as innately innocent.
(b) In a way, they echoed patriarchal ideas that men had inbred aggressive tendencies and women had submissive and nurturing tendencies.
(c) They frowned on discussing violence at all.
(d) They thought that gender was not really at play in problems of violence.

11. Besides spreading feminism and its goals, what else would be accomplished by the action promoted by the author?
(a) A better sense of current events.
(b) The dispelling of stereotypes.
(c) Less boredom and frustration.
(d) The creation of new woman-owned franchises.

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

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

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

15. 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) A concerted and sustained effort to change sexist attitudes in women.
(b) Armed struggle.
(c) An understanding of the socio-political systems that give rise to and perpetuate sexist attitudes.
(d) A concerted and sustained effort to change sexist attitudes in men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Following the author's reasoning, what does a societal trend towards women identifying with and pursuing male models of power show?

2. According to the title of Chapter Nine, what is one of the primary goals of the feminist movement?

3. What do these accepted beliefs about motherhood manifest for the author?

4. What group of women are left out but really stand to benefit more from feminist thought?

5. How did early feminists, and society at the time, view housework?

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