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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What assertion does the author make about lower and middle class women and power?
(a) They have given up on attaining any power in their lives.
(b) They do not have the time to create new models of power.
(c) They have followed creative and life-affirming models of power.
(d) They feel comfortable with the power hierarchy.

2. Which of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of long accepted views of motherhood?
(a) Women should not nurse in public.
(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) The mother is the only parent capable of good parenting.

3. What does the author suggest about many successful feminists and their relationship with power?
(a) They become power hungry to the point of fanaticism.
(b) They develop an inferiority complex.
(c) They embody and/or capitalize upon male definitions of power and success.
(d) They try to dominate men.

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

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

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

7. How is the long and painstaking process of change experienced by societies like the United States?
(a) As foreign, unappealing, and frustrating.
(b) As boring.
(c) As relatively easy.
(d) As frustrating but entertaining.

8. 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) Both are necessary to the movement.
(c) They need to take turns being in charge.
(d) They should learn to stand i the other groups shoes.

9. What represents true sexual liberty for the author?
(a) Abstinence.
(b) Ending sexual oppression and sexism.
(c) Unrestricted heterosexual relations.
(d) Same sex relations.

10. Based on your overall understanding of this text, what approach is suggested by the title, Feminist Theory from Margin to Center?
(a) Feminism is now accepted because it includes men.
(b) Feminist theory is changed, enhanced, and expanded by voices coming from the margins.
(c) Feminist theory has been simplified to gain mass appeal.
(d) Feminism started out on the margins and now it is mainstream.

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

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

13. 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) Many uneducated women have been excluded.
(c) More women have been attracted to the movement.
(d) Younger women have been able to relate to feminist writing with more ease.

14. For the author, if "we" are to transform our present reality, what must happen?
(a) We cannot truly change out present reality without creating complete chaos.
(b) We must embrace our enemies.
(c) We must elect a female president.
(d) The world we most intimately know and feel safe in must end.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the author, tensions about motherhood existed between which two schools of thought?

4. What is the author's central theory about the nature (and practice) of violence against women?

5. What will happen if people follow the course of action regarding beliefs about motherhood proposed by the author?

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