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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the author's view, how should the beliefs about motherhood that she discusses be dealt with?
(a) They should be broken down and eliminated.
(b) They should be taught in schools.
(c) They should be replaced by non-European beliefs.
(d) They should be embraced by new mothers.

2. What has desensitized women and men to violence in the author's view?
(a) Its use in everyday language.
(b) She does not feel that women have become desensitized to violence.
(c) Their families.
(d) Its prevalence in the media.

3. What is the author's central theory about the nature (and practice) of violence against women?
(a) It is a manifestation and perpetuation of traditional patriarchal thought that men are powerful and women are victims.
(b) It is an innate part of male biology.
(c) It is a result of women entering the workforce in large numbers.
(d) Women invite violence by the way they dress.

4. Besides spreading feminism and its goals, what else would be accomplished by the action promoted by the author?
(a) Less boredom and frustration.
(b) A better sense of current events.
(c) The dispelling of stereotypes.
(d) The creation of new woman-owned franchises.

5. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?
(a) Encouraging women to challenge their male professors.
(b) Encouraging women not to get lose sight of their families in their quest for an education.
(c) Encouraging women to strive for education and develop their intellects.
(d) Encouraging women to take more business classes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is violence truly a manifestation of for the author?

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

4. How does the author herself feel about the slow process of change and all the work that it involves?

5. How did early (upper middle class, white) feminists regard work?

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