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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the author's opinion about the two different groups and how they function?
(a) Both are necessary to the movement.
(b) They should learn to stand i the other groups shoes.
(c) One is more necessary to the movement than the other.
(d) They need to take turns being in charge.

2. What change in attitudes towards work does the author propose in Chapter Seven.
(a) People need to try new career paths.
(b) Society needs to discourage too much focus on work.
(c) From a purely money-oriented activity to an activity that enables, and enriches, life.
(d) From a male-dominated sphere to a woman-dominated sphere.

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

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

5. On what levels of culture and society is violence most likely to exist?
(a) On all levels: family, community, government, international relations, etc.
(b) Mostly between countries at war.
(c) The author does not make a statement one way or the other.
(d) Mostly on the interpersonal level.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author's opinion of the early feminist belief about creating change?

2. Who is affected by sexist attitudes in the author's view?

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

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

5. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?

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