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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities enable them to do?
(a) It will enable them to keep their jobs.
(b) It enables them to reinforce the patriarchal model of power.
(c) It will not enable them to change anything.
(d) It can enable them to resist exploitation, freeing them to transform society for the better.

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

3. Who is affected by sexist attitudes in the author's view?
(a) Both men and women.
(b) Women.
(c) Gay men.
(d) No one.

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

5. 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 feel comfortable with the power hierarchy.
(c) They have followed creative and life-affirming models of power.
(d) They do not have the time to create new models of power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been the result of this mode of circulation?

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

3. How does the author characterize the majority of feminist writing?

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

5. Which of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of long accepted views of motherhood?

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