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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) It alienated them from feminism.
(c) They agreed with it.
(d) Work was not part of their list of concerns at the time.

2. What can the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities enable them to do?
(a) It will not enable them to change anything.
(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 enable them to keep their jobs.

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

4. What was the early feminist belief about creating change according to the author?
(a) That change would not take place for another generation.
(b) That demanding necessary change and pointing out areas for that change would be enough to make it happen.
(c) It would happen once women took over the media.
(d) That armed resistance was the only way to achieve true change.

5. What assertion does the author make about lower and middle class women and power?
(a) They feel comfortable with the power hierarchy.
(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 have given up on attaining any power in their lives.

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. Overall, what is the author's approach to presenting feminist ideas in this book?

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

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

5. How does the author view housework?

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