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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the author's view, which prejudices is it important for women of color to transcend?
(a) Prejudices against rich women.
(b) Prejudices against illiterate women.
(c) Prejudices against academics and/or intellectuals.
(d) Prejudices against their mothers' generation.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?

2. How does consumerism relate to the author's discussion of power?

3. Besides spreading feminism and its goals, what else would be accomplished by the action promoted by the author?

4. Related to the issue of feminist writing, between which two groups does the author notice tension in the greater feminist movement?

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

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