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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of strategies for dealing with accepted beliefs about motherhood?
(a) Men must be encouraged to practice parenting.
(b) Men should be the breadwinners, not the caregivers.
(c) Men must be encouraged to believe that they are capable of good parenting.
(d) Parenting must also take place outside the home.

2. In the author's opinion, how did early feminists view violence against women?
(a) They frowned on discussing violence at all.
(b) They thought that gender was not really at play in problems of violence.
(c) They saw men as corrupt and women as innately innocent.
(d) In a way, they echoed patriarchal ideas that men had inbred aggressive tendencies and women had submissive and nurturing tendencies.

3. What is the author's main contention about work in Chapter Seven?
(a) Professors are underpaid.
(b) There needs to be better statistical data about employment.
(c) The government should create more jobs.
(d) Ideas and attitudes about work must change.

4. What ideas about parenting does the author initially discuss?
(a) Parenting in American television sitcoms.
(b) Feminist ideas about parenting.
(c) Same sex couples' ideas about parenting.
(d) European ideas of parenting.

5. 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) The world we most intimately know and feel safe in must end.
(d) We must elect a female president.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In addition to gender and violence, what major aspect of violence does the author discuss in this chapter?

3. Why does society-the U.S. in particular-have this kind of reaction to the process of change?

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

5. What change in attitudes towards work does the author propose in Chapter Seven.

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