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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) Society needs to discourage too much focus on work.
(b) From a purely money-oriented activity to an activity that enables, and enriches, life.
(c) From a male-dominated sphere to a woman-dominated sphere.
(d) People need to try new career paths.

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

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

4. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?
(a) They have lived in circumstances that required self-reliance, rather than dependency.
(b) They work all the time.
(c) They need further political education.
(d) They have met with a lot of defeat.

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

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

7. 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 those who write and discuss theories and ideas and those who engage in direct activism to support the feminist movement.
(c) The tension between younger and older women.
(d) The tension between those who advocate scientific analysis and those advocating political manifestos.

8. The title of Chapter Twelve, "Feminist Revolution: Development through Struggle," refers to which of the following ideas?
(a) That feminist-oriented change is achieved through perseverance and hard work.
(b) That the feminist movement must struggle for the benefit of developing countries.
(c) The feminist revolution will only be won via armed struggle.
(d) Feminists create change by holding serious debates.

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

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

11. In the author's view, what is the result, or effect, of some successful feminists' particular relationship with power?
(a) It makes men extremely jealous.
(b) It reverses gender roles in a positive way.
(c) It perpetuates the very sexism they claim to strive against.
(d) It destroys less powerful women's chances.

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

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

14. What has happened as a result of the form taken by the majority of feminist writing?
(a) Many women have seen the writing as impractical.
(b) More women have been attracted to the movement.
(c) Many uneducated women have been excluded.
(d) Younger women have been able to relate to feminist writing with more ease.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of Chapter Ten, "Revolutionary Parenting," suggests which of the following ideas?

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

3. How does the author view the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities?

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

5. According to the author, in what form has feminist thought primarily been circulated?

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